The animals with queer names: as hen (henny-penny), cock (cocky-locky), goose (goosey-poosey). (Cf. Z32.2.1.) — Mythoi

Motif

The animals with queer names: as hen (henny-penny), cock (cocky-locky), goose (goosey-poosey). (Cf. Z32.2.1.)

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Cited in the index

general *Wesselski Hessische Blätter f. Vksk. XXXII 55
general *Taylor JAFL XLVI 80 No. 2010 IA
general Jacobs English Fairy Tales 118
general *T. Norlind Svenska Allmogens Liv 2d ed. (Stockholm, 1925) 612
general Kristensen Danske Dyrefabler 182 Nos. 431–32. – Antigua (British West Indies): Johnson JAFL XXXIV 68 No. 24.

Within the index

Filed under Cumulative tales – miscellaneous.

Filed beside it

Chains involving contradictions or extremes Bird avenges caged mate. Builds cart, yokes frogs to it, arms himself with piece of reed, and proclaims war with king. Collects cat, ants, rope, club, and river. He is put by king into fowl house; cat eats up fowls. In stable rope and club beat up horses. In elephant-house ants get into their brains and kill them all. Tied to king's bed, river floods king in his bed. King gives bird back his mate

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

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

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