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B221.3. Land of lions. Icel.: Boberg.
B221.4. Land of elephants. Icel.: Boberg.
B221.5. Land of mice. India: *Thompson-Balys.
B221.6. Land of tigers.
B221.6.1. Village of wer-tigers. India: Thompson-Balys.
D112.2. Transformation: man to tiger.
B222. Kingdom (land) of birds. Arabian: Burton Nights VIII 91; Japanese: Anesaki 324, Ikeda.
B222.1. Land of pigeons. India: Thompson-Balys.
B222.2. Land of peacocks. India: Thompson-Balys.
B222.3. Land of parakeets. India: Thompson-Balys.
B222.4. Land of parrots. India: Thompson-Balys.
B223. Kingdom of fishes. India: *Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Hartland Science 174, Ikeda. — N. A. Indian: Thompson Tales 342 n. 236.
B223.1. Kingdom of sharks. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 140.
B224. Kingdom of insects.
B224.1. Kingdom of ants. Chauvin VII 40 No. 153 n. 3; Jewish: Neuman.
B225. Kingdom of reptiles.
B225.1. Kingdom of serpents. Icel.: Boberg; Chauvin V 256f. No. 152; India: Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 388.
B244.1. King of serpents. B549.5. Frog rescues man from kingdom of the snakes. C711. Tabu: going into bath on return from serpent kingdom. R152.6. Wife gels back her husband from land of serpents by charming him with her beautiful dance.
B225.1.1. Snake kingdom under the sea. — India: Thompson-Balys.
F133. Submarine otherworld.
B226. Kingdom of amphibia.
B226.1. Community of toads. German: Grimm Nos. 63, 127.
B226.2. Community of frogs. Jewish: Neuman.
B230. Parliament of animals. E. Voigt "Odo de Ciringtonis und seine Quellen" Zs. f. d. Alterthum XXIII (N.F. XI) 283; Africa: Stanley 222, (Fang): Trilles 176, Tessman 54, (Wute): Sieber 205, (Duala): Ebding 142, (Wakweli): Bender 62; India: Thompson-Balys.
B232. Parliament of birds. (Cf. B236.1, B238.) — Type 220; *BP III 278ff. — *Robinson Complete Works of Chaucer 900ff.; T. Wright The Owl and the Nightingale (Percy Society, 1834); Irish myth: Cross; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "oiseaux"; Hindu: *Penzer V 100 n. 1; India: *Thompson-Balys; — Seneca (Indians): Curtin-Hewitt RBAE XXXII 695 No. 133.
K815.8. Hawk persuades doves to elect him their king. Kills them. L147.1. Tardy bird alone succeeds at bird convocation.
B232.1. St. Valentine's Day for bird assembly. Sartori Sitte u. Brauch III 88; M. Höfler Das Jahr im oberbayerischen Volksleben (München 1899) 11; G. L. Gomme (ed) Mother Bunch's Closet Newly Broke Open (Leipzig 1839) II (1) 357f.; E. Schröder Korrespondenzblatt des Vereins f. niederdeutsche Sprachforschung XXXVI (1917—1918) 77;
