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- Why days shorten in autumn: the real sun sets very early because the red cockscomb plant, used to kill his brother sun with, grows to its full height during this time. A1156
- Why cocks crow. A2421.6
- Land of peacocks. B222.2
- King of peacocks. B242.2.5
- Cocks kept from intercourse with hens have tenderest meat. B754.5
- Transformation: man to cockscomb plant. D213.1
- Reincarnation as cockscomb. E631.1.4
- Peacocks of gold. F855.3.1
- Devil avoids cockscomb flowers. G303.16.14.5
- Task: procuring four full-grown peacocks to sit one on each of four golden pinnacles of palace room. H1154.7.3
- Mouse teaches her child to fear quiet cats but not noisy cocks. J132
- Cocks who crow about mistress's adultery killed. Discreet cock saves his life. J551.1
- Painted jackal admitted neither to the peacocks nor to the jackals. J951.4.1
- United cocks defeat partridge. When they quarrel they are defeated. J1025