Peacock pregnant without intercourse. Male spits up semen and female eats it. This as a curse. (Cf. A2236.5.)

Motif

Peacock pregnant without intercourse. Male spits up semen and female eats it. This as a curse. (Cf. A2236.5.)

Animals. · Fanciful traits of animals. · Fanciful habits of animals. · view the constellation · filed as B754.6

Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

India*Thompson-Balys
JewishNeuman (raven).

Within the index

Filed under Sexual habits of animals.

1 finer motif beneath it

Unusual impregnation of animal

Filed beside it

Unusual sexual union of animals Animal changes sex periodically Elephants have sexual desire only after eating mandrakes Lions do not mate with their fellows, but prefer leopards. (Cf. Q551.3.)Male rabbit bears young. Female rabbit escaped Noah on ark and drowned Cocks kept from intercourse with hens have tenderest meat Unusual parturition of animal

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Animal punished for not heralding dawn

wander