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e of necessity; indeed, when young Tittone requires it, a battalion of hawks appear in order to free the imprisoned maiden loved by Tittone.--In the fifth story of the fifth book of the Pentamerone, the hawk serves as a guide to a young king to find a beautifu
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Other beetles--the green beetle and the cockchafer--have also extraordinary virtues in fairy tales
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he bull's dead body.--The bee according to Finnish mythology.--The bees descended from paradise as part of the mind of God.--Bee's-wax causes light.--The Bienenstock.--The madhumati kaçâ.--The bees as winds.--Apis and avis.--The mother of the bees.--The young
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In the twenty-second story of the fifth book of Afanassieff, a bee transforms itself into a young hero, in order to prove to the old man that he is able to fetch back his son, who has remained three years under the instruction of the devil (the moon enables th
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We are tempted to figure the bee as a musician, from the form of the bee being sometimes attributed to the Hellenic Muses and Apollo, and the name "bee of Delphi" being given to the Pythoness (as a cloud)
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ito and the fly.--In the ninth Esthonian story, the son of the thunder, by means of a louse, obliges the thunder-god to scratch his head for a moment, and thus to let fall the weapon of thunder, which is instantly carried off to hell
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le as the singer of the night.--The nightingale as the messenger of lovers; he now helps them, and now compels them to separate.--The sun dries the nightingale up; a wedding custom.--The swallow; the chicken of the Lord.--The seven swallows of the Edda.--The s
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ieff, a nightingale in a cage sings dolorously; the old man who possesses it says to his son Basil, that he would give half his substance to know what the nightingale is predicting by this woful song
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lar English song,[379] two lovers go together into the shadowy forest, where the nightingale sings; the maiden is terrified by the nightingale; but when she has married her young lover, she no longer fears either the gloomy wood or the nightingale's warbling
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ollows the advice of the swallows, finds and obtains the hidden gold, and recovers his wife (the sun marries the spring, the flowery and verdant earth, when the swallows arrive and begin to sing)
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The fox (the spring aurora) takes the cheese (the moon) from the crow (the winter night), by making it sing
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In the sixth of the Sicilian stories of Signora Gonzenbach, crows carry the boy Giuseppe, shut up in a sack made of a horse's skin dried in the sun, to a mountain covered with diamonds, and the egg of a crow thrown on the head of the monster giant kills him
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ction with the disease of consumption.[403] In the forty-sixth story of Afanassieff, the magpies are in relation with the mythical water; one magpie is sent for the water of life, and another for the water of speech, to resuscitate the two sons of a prince and
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But, inasmuch as every species of malice is learned in hell, the malice of the magpie became even more proverbial than that of the crow
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By means of this sack the old man recovers the former one, and reduces his wife to obedience
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the cock is in the moon's favour, either because it assisted Latona in parturition, or because it is generally believed (as a symbol of fecundation) to be the facilitator of childbirth
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When the magicians defraud him of this stone, enclosed in a ring, the young man becomes old again, and goes to seek his lost ring in the kingdom of the deep hole (de Pertuso cupo) inhabited by the rat; the rats gnaw the finger of the magician who has the ring;
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In the first of the Esthonian stories, the cock that crows is a spy over the old woman.[429] In the third Esthonian story, a woman gives her husband three eggs of a black hen to eat in order to obtain three dwarf heroes
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which, accompanied sometimes by songs and proverbs, so many popular customs, mythologically in accordance, are current in the various countries of Europe, celebrate the resurrection of the celestial egg, a symbol of abundance,[432] the sun of spring
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ad; Bribus as Indras, and as a bird.--Brahman upon the hansâs.--The sun as a golden duck.--The betrothed wife as a duck.--The arrows of Râmas as hansâs.--Kabandhas drawn by hansâs.--The hansâs as love messengers.--The geese-swans and the young hero in Russian
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hite ones served for the more poetical images of mythology, the red and the dark ones offered aspects now benignant, now malignant, alluring the hero now to his ruin, and now, instead, to good fortune
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In the chapter which treats of the swallow, we saw the beautiful maiden upon the tree at the fountain changed into a swallow by the witch's enchantment; numerous other legends, instead of the transformation into a swallow, give us that into a dove.[438] The st
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king to his brother Milluccio a horse which, as soon as it is ridden, will break his neck, and that he who should warn Milluccio of this, or not take the horse to him, would turn, to marble; and finally, it says that Gennariello is taking to his brother a wife
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In the twenty-second Esthonian story, when the young prince-lover arrives, two doves perch upon the rose-bush, in which the beautiful daughter of the gardener is enclosed by enchantment; the beautiful maiden comes out of the rose-bush, and, showing the half of
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The duck, in Russian stories, deposits its egg upon the robber's head; thus Indras takes their treasures off the head of the Panayas
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In the fourth story of the first book of Afanassieff, little Johnny (Ivasco) is upon an oak-tree, which the witch is gnawing, to possess herself of him; three flights of geese-swans pass one after the other; Johnny begs for their assistance; the first flight r
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But if geese, ducks, and swans sometimes do evil, or are sometimes diabolical forms assumed by the witch's deceit, they generally produce good and conduct to good
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o have the duck cooked; but the two sons are before him; and whilst their mother is at mass, one eats the head and the other the heart of the duck, and meet with the adventures which are related in the chapter on the Horse.[459] The golden egg of the duck caus
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In the Russian story, the fairy maidens (in German traditions, the Virgin Mary too) sometimes take, in order to cross the waters, the form of geese-swans; thus in the Eddas, three Valkyries spin on the shores of the lake, with their swan forms close behind the
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When he comes on the swan to meet the beautiful maiden, no one must ask him whence he came
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A gentleman had twelve sons and one daughter, who had, by enchantment, been metamorphosed into an eagle, and was kept in a cage
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There was once a king who had a handsome son, enamoured of a beautiful princess
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so yellow and red, whence the appellation haris is always applicable to them).[469] The moon, on account of its colour, is now a tree (a green one), now an apple-tree with golden branches and apples, now a parrot (golden or green, and luminous)
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r Ferraro, which is related in the Monferrato, and of which I have also heard, in my childhood, a variation at Turin:--A king, going to the wars, and fearing that another king, who is his rival, will profit by his absence to seduce his wife, places by her side
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akrâvatâras and the fisher.--The stone and the fish.--Adrikâ, Girikâ, the mother of fishes.--The matsyâs as a nation.--Çaradvat.--Pradyumnas.--Guhas.--The fishes laugh.--The fish guards the white haoma.--The water of the fish drunk by the cook.--The devil stea
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The legend of the nymph Adrikâ (from the word adris, which means a stone, a rock, a mountain, or a cloud) presents the same analogy between the stone-cloud, that is, the stone in the waters, and the fish
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We already know that phallical images and demoniacal ones sometimes correspond; hence, in the ninth Esthonian story, the devil steals the fishes from the fishermen; hence, in the Eddas, the brigand Loki now assumes the form of a salmon, and now catches the pik
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We are already acquainted with the sea-monster which, in the Râmâyanam (like the siren fish), allures from the sea the shadow of Hanumant, and can make itself now small, now large; we have seen the dwarf Andvarri of the Eddas, who hides himself in the form of
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When the night is with the moon, instead of swallowing the hero, the bull-moon or fish-moon carries him or serves as a bridge for him
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The judges call the perch, the eel-pout, and the herring to give witness
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The little sea-urchin (and the dwarf Vishnus and the dolphin are equivalent to it, the word çinçumâras being equivocal in Sanskrit) in the Rigvedas draws the chariot of riches; in the Eddas, a dwarf in the form of a pike (in Greek lükios, in Latin lucius) watc
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[478] Indras, as a warlike god, does not know fear, or rather, he kills fear (the hymn says, "Aher yâtâram kam apaçya indra hridi yat te gaghnuso bhîr agacchat"; Rigv. i
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We all know the myth of Hêraklês, who, when combatting the hydra of Lerne, was caught and drawn back by the crab, which Hêra, therefore, transformed into the celestial constellation of the crab
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We have already seen the nightingale and the stag as images representing the moon; here we also find a crab as a lunar figure
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The phallical Indras carries on his shoulders a mountain of wood, which evidently corresponds to the mandaras or kaça-pas, and, on the way, offends the dwarf hermits born of the hairs of the body of Brahman, that is, the hairs themselves; to this Kaçyapas, the
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But the diabolical form of a frog is sometimes assumed by the beautiful maiden (or else by the handsome youth) as the effect of a malediction or an enchantment
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the king's son, who little loves thee, if he love thee not, will love thee when he has thee for his wife.) The prince weds the toad, which is immediately transformed into a beautiful maiden
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