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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 105
Rights
public_domain
Language
English
Record updated
2026-08-25

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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 tales.--The serpent-witch and the princess as a white duck.-…

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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 tales.--The serpent-witch and the princess as a white duck.--The golden and silver eggs of the duck.--The golden egg of the duck causes the death of the horse.--The geese of the Capitol.--The goose which, after having been cooked, rises again alive.--Geese as discoverers of deceits.--The Valkiries as swans.--Berta the Reine pédauque.--The wild goose on the bush.--The goose eaten on St Michael's Day.--The hero and the swan.--The kingdom of the San Graal.--The legend of Lohengrin; a variety of the myth of the Açvinâu; Lohengrin and Elsa's brother, the sun and the moon.--The legend of the Dioskuroi; Zeus as a swan; the Dioskuroi deliver Helen, as Lohengrin delivers Elsa.

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