Quest for marvelous bird — Mythoi

Motif

Quest for marvelous bird.

Tests. · Tests of prowess: quests. · Nature of quests. · Quest for marvelous objects or animals. · view the constellation · filed as H1331.1

Filed across the traditions

India *Thompson-Balys
Africa (Kaffir) Theal 78.
general *Type 550
general BP I 503ff., III 33

Within the index

Filed under Quest for remarkable animal.

5 finer motifs beneath it

Quest for Bird of Truth Quest for three feathers of marvelous bird Quest for golden bird Quest for speaking bird. Makes all other birds sing with him Quest for fat of water blackbirds

Filed beside it

Quest for marvelous boar (pig) Quest for marvelous cattle Quest for marvelous horse Quest for marvelous goat Quest for marvelous dog Quest for creature with a single horn mounting to heaven with single red hair on its head Quest for a large-headed worm Quest for sheep that is a hound by night and a sheep by day

Carried in tale types

Bird, Horse and Princess (previously Search for the Golden Bird) · ATU 550 16 recorded variants
Water of Life (previously The Sons on a Quest for a Wonderful Remedy for their Father) · ATU 551 8 recorded variants

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