Series: white cock, red cock, black cock. These crow at dawn and scatter ghosts. (Cf. E452.) — Mythoi

Motif

Series: white cock, red cock, black cock. These crow at dawn and scatter ghosts. (Cf. E452.)

Miscellaneous groups of motifs. · Formulas. · Other formulistic motifs. · view the constellation · filed as Z65.2

Cited in the index

general Köhler-Bolte III 581.

Within the index

Filed under Color formulas.

Filed beside it

Red as blood, white as snow. Often from blood on snow as a suggestion, a wish is made for a child (wife) with skin like snow and cheeks like blood, etc. (Sometimes black as a raven.)

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Ghost laid at cockcrow (dawn)

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