μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

The death of the little hen described with unusual words. Each act of mourning described by a neologism: the table untables itself. (Cf. X1506.)

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 Z32.2.1

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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. 2022A, Hdwb. d. Märchens II 177a
  • general Tegethoff Französische Märchen II 78 No. 18
  • general Rolland Rimes et jeux d'enfance (1881) 119f.
  • general Kristensen Danske Dyrefabler 98ff. No. 171ff.
Within the index

Filed under The death of the little hen. She is characteristically mourned by objects and animals; e.g., flea, door, broom, cart, ashes, tree, girl.

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The extraordinary names. A place where animals and things are designated by senseless names. (Cf. Z32.2.1.)The animals with queer names: as hen (henny-penny), cock (cocky-locky), goose (goosey-poosey). (Cf. Z32.2.1.)
Carried in tale types

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