Cow with changing colors. Changes every four hours: white, red, black

Motif

Cow with changing colors. Changes every four hours: white, red, black.

Animals. · Fanciful traits of animals. · Fanciful physical qualities of animals. · Fanciful color, smell, etc. of animals. · view the constellation · filed as B731.4

Filed across the traditions

Greek Frazer Apollodorus I 310 n. 3. → on our shelf: The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK III, ch. III

Within the index

Filed under Fanciful color of animal.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Cow with white ears Cow with red ears

Filed beside it

Animals of strange and varied coloring Green she-goat Green horse Multicolored llama. Wool red, blue, and yellow. No need to dye it for weaving Silver, gold, and diamond birds Hound of every color Fancifully colored deer Red (green) swine Purple wether Multicolored worm (serpent) Blue serpent Silver fish with gold fins Bird with changing color Hyena with three hundred sixty-five different colors

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

Medicine shown by animal. It heals another animal with a medicine (herb, water, etc.) and thus shows the man the remedy. Sometimes the medicine resuscitates the dead. (The animal is most frequently the serpent. (Cf. B491.) Man falls into jar of honey and is drowned. Chases a mouse

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