Silver, gold, and diamond birds

Motif

Silver, gold, and diamond birds.

Animals. · Fanciful traits of animals. · Fanciful physical qualities of animals. · Fanciful color, smell, etc. of animals. · view the constellation · filed as B731.5

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In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Indian / Hindu (Sanskrit epic)The Ramayan of Valmiki (Griffith verse translation), Book 3, Canto 55

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

CzechTille FFC XXXIV 162.

Within the index

Filed under Fanciful color of animal.

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

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