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THE CUCKOO, THE HERON, THE HEATHCOCK, THE PARTRIDGE, THE NIGHTINGALE, THE SWALLOW, THE SPARROW, AND

Date of account: English edition published 1872
Source: Zoological Mythology; or, The Legends of Animals, Volume 2 (of 2)
Reference: Zoological Mythology; or, The Legends of Animals, Volume 2 (of 2) · selected passage 17
Rights: public_domain
Language: English
Record updated: 2026-08-25

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red cat.--The funereal and diabolical cat.--Cat and fox.--The cat hangman.--Le chat botté.--Chatte blanche; the cat that spins and weaves.--The cat becomes a girl.--The enchanted palace of the cats.--The cats of February; the black cat; the cat dreamed-of.--The cat becomes a witch at seven years of age.--The cat in the…

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red cat.--The funereal and diabolical cat.--Cat and fox.--The cat hangman.--_Le chat botté_.--_Chatte blanche;_ the cat that spins and weaves.--The cat becomes a girl.--The enchanted palace of the cats.--The cats of February; the black cat; the cat dreamed-of.--The cat becomes a witch at seven years of age.--The cat in the sack.--The mewing of the cat.--The cats dispute for souls.--Battle of cats.--The mice that bite their tails or that gnaw the threads of the net.--The mouse in the honey.--The mouse that becomes a maiden; the mouse and the mountain.--The mouse that becomes a tiger.--The souls of the dead pass into mice; funereal and diabolical mice; superstitions relating to this belief.--The mouse that releases the lion and the elephant from the trap.--Ganeças crushes the mouse; Apollo Smyntheus.--When the cat's away the mice can dance.--The mouse plays blind-man's-buff with the bear.--The grateful mouse.--The mouse that foresees the future.--Mouse and sparrow, first friends and then enemies.--The batrachomyomachia.--The mouse, the tooth, and the coin.--Hiranyakas; the squirrel.--The monster mole; the mole as a gravedigger; the blind mole.--The snail in the popular song; the snail and the serpent; the snail as a funereal animal.

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