34 motifs match “cuckoo”  ·  back to the chapters

• Creation of cuckoo. A1993
• Cuckoo a transformed baker. A1993.1
• Cuckoo delivers other birds from their cruel king: they agree to hatch out cuckoo's young. A2229.5
• Cuckoo builds nest on Annunciation Day: has no nest. (Cf. A2431.2.1.) A2231.3.1
• Cuckoo borrows food from other birds. (Cf. A2435.4.1.) A2241.4
• Jay borrows cuckoo's skin. (Cf. A2313.1.) A2241.6
• Son accidentally kills father, who returns to life as cuckoo and tells people when to sow grain. A2275.6
• Origin of cuckoo's feathers. (Cf. A2241.6.) A2313.1
• Why cuckoo has red eyes. A2332.5.2
• Color of cuckoo. A2411.2.6.10
• Cuckoo's sweet voice. A2423.2.2
• Cuckoo's song. (Cf. A2275.2.) A2426.2.5
• Why cuckoo has no nest. (Cf. A2231.3.1.) A2431.2.1
• Crow hatches cuckoo's egg. A2431.2.1.1
• Food of cuckoo. (Cf. A2241.4.) A2435.4.1
• Why cuckoo flies with difficulty, and sings with wings spread. A2442.2.2
• Wedding of lark and cuckoo. B282.3.2
• Wedding of cuckoo with another bird. B282.19
• Helpful cuckoo. B469.8
• Transformation: man to cuckoo. D156
• Hearing cuckoo call a good omen. D1812.5.2.5.1
• Saint causes cuckoo to call in winter. D2156.9
• Resuscitation by cuckoo. E122.1
• Reincarnation as cuckoo. E613.5
• Cuckoo-clock. Bird calls out the hours. F989.3
• Task: procuring cuckoo to sing in winter. H1023.3.1.1
• Birds flee from cuckoo who, they believe, will later become a hawk. J645.1
• Helping the cuckoo. A numskull climbs a tree to help a cuckoo so that he may call louder than the one in the neighboring forest. Meanwhile his horse is eaten by a wolf. J1872.1
• The pent cuckoo. Fools build an enclosure to keep in the cuckoo. She flies over the hedge. They say that they have not built the hedge high enough. J1904.2
• Fools try to hedge the cuckoo so that they will have summer the year round (the coming of the first cuckoo being the sign of the coming summer). J1904.2.1
• Weasel induces cuckoo to tell him that it cries at night when asleep. Hence weasels can kill cuckoos. K815.10
• The woman as cuckoo on the tree shot down. The anger bargain is to cease when the cuckoo crows. The ogre's wife climbs the tree and imitates the cuckoo. She is shot down. K1691
• A man in place of a cuckoo. A cruel master commands his serf to climb a tree and imitate the cry of the cuckoo; he shoots the "cuckoo." K1691.1
• Secret age overheard by eavesdropper. Man masking as cuckoo in tree causes the surprised ogre to disclose secret. N475.1