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Motifs
- Enmity between dog and rooster. A2494.4.11
- Crowing of ghost rooster. E402.2.1
- Witch in form of rooster. G211.3.1.1
- Rooster's crow interpreted. J1811.4
- Henpecked husband leaves home. Hears a rooster crow, saying: "Cocky kuko! It's the same everywhere!" He returns home. J1811.4.1
- Death evaded by persuading executioner that another victim was ordered. (E.g., boy has been ordered to kill hare. Hare persuades the boy that the father said, "Kill the rooster for the hare.") K511.1
- Cumulative: master to kill hen. She begs off; he goes to kill rooster .... goose, rabbit, toad, tiger. Z32.4
- Man invites animals to come and work in his field. Rooster kills beetle; cat kills rooster; dog kills cat; leopard kills dog; hyena kills leopard; buffalo kills hyena; elephant kills buffalo, and lion chases elephant so that both fall into trap. Man calls wives to see meat he has killed. Z43.6
Tale types
- ATU 112** The Mice and the Rooster
- ATU 1828 The Rooster at Church Crows
- ATU 2021 The Rooster and the Hen
- ATU 2021B The Rooster Strikes Out the Hen's Eye with a Nut
- ATU 204 Animals in Peril at Sea (previously Duck, Rooster, and Sheep in Peril at Sea)
- ATU 210 Rooster, Hen, Duck, Pin, and Needle on a Journey [B296, F1025]
- ATU 219E* The Old Man Has a Rooster, the Old Woman a Hen
- ATU 219H* The Rooster and the Pearl
- ATU 230* The Race of the Rooster, the Birch-cock and the Birch-hen
- ATU 243A The Rooster who Crows about Mistress's Adultery Killed