Bird as messenger.
Animals. · Animals with human traits. · Other animals with human traits. · view the constellation · filed as B291.1
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
- ReferenceThe Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged), Chapter XLVIIXLVII. Lityerses
- IrishOld Celtic Romances: Translated from the Gaelic, Tale 12VOYAGE OF THE SONS OF O'CORRA.[CLV.]
- North American IndigenousTales of the North American Indians, Tale 59LIX. SPLINTER-FOOT-GIRL”®
- Depth CommentaryPrimitive Culture: Researches into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom, Chapter IX
Scholars’ trail — 11references
The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.
- EnglishChild II 113n., 356–365 passim, III 4, 8, IV 412, 482, 484f., V 234
- WelshMacCulloch Celtic 101
- Irish mythCross
- IndiaThompson-Balys
- ChineseGraham
- HawaiiBeckwith Myth 90f.
- Marquesasibid. 91
- MonoWheeler 9, 21
- Africa (Fang)Einstein 148, 154, (Cameroon): Gantenbein 68.
- general Warncke Lais der Marie de France 2d ed. cxxxix.
- general Mangaia (Cook Is.): Clark 142