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Motifs
- Tabu: heeding persuasive voices. C811
- Voices of dead heard from graveyard. E401
- Voices from heaven (or from the air). F966
- Animals compete as messenger to call father of new-born child. Their voices are tried. H483
- What animal has one voice living and seven voices dead? (Ibis, from whose carcass musical instruments are made.) H842.3
- Bird hears voices from within unhatched eggs and flies away: voices plot to dine on their bird-mother when they are born. J646.2
- Fox as shepherd. A woman in search of a shepherd tries the voices of applicants. The wolf and the bear are rejected, the fox accepted. K934
- Heavenly voices proclaim birth of future child hero. M311.0.4
- Devil in roof of church into which he thrusts voices of loud singers. (Cf. Q223.) Q554.2
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