μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 5references

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 *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 extremesBird 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
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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