μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

The death of the cock. (Der Tod des Hühnchens.) The cock chokes and the hen seeks aid of objects and persons (stream, tree, pig, miller, baker, etc.).

Miscellaneous groups of motifs. · Formulas. · Cumulative tales. · Chains involving a single scene or event without interdependence among the individual actors. · view the constellation · filed as Z32.1.1

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Scholars’ trail — 4references

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.

  • general *Taylor JAFL XLVI 82 No. 2021A
  • general BP II 146
  • general **Haavio FFC XCIX
  • general **Wesselski Hessische Blätter f. Vksk. XXXII 2ff.
Within the index

Filed under The funeral procession of the hen. Animals one by one join the procession. The funeral carriage breaks down or the procession drowns.

Carried in tale types

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