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B282.20. Wedding of pigeon with another bird. French: Lambert Chants et Chansons de Languedoc I 332 (lark), Soleville Chants pop. du Bas-Quercy 303ff. (falcon).
B282.21. Wedding of cock and hen. German: Blätter für pommersche Volkskunde IX (1901) 43ff.
B282.22. Wedding of crow and titmouse.
B282.22.1. Crow refuses to marry titmouse, since she is 100 years old. Type 244**.
B841. Long-lived animals.
B282.23. The courtship of the stork and the crane. Go a-courting one another across the marshes but never come to an understanding, as each time either one or the other changes his mind. (Cf. T91.) — Lithuanian: Balys Index No. *223; Russian Andrejev No. *244 I.
B283. Wedding of fish. India: Thompson-Balys.
B283.1. Wedding of crab. Bulgarian: Rosen Bulgarische Volksdichtungen 232 (frog); Roumanian: Schuller Romänische Volkslieder 34ff. (toad).
B283.2. Wedding of carp. Chinese: JAFL VIII 189f.
B284. Wedding of amphibians.
B284.1. Wedding of frog. (See B283.1.)
B284.1.1. Wedding of frog and mouse. ("Frog went a-courtin'"). — United States: JAFL XXVI 134f., XXV 392—399 No. 138, Cox Folksongs of the South 470ff. No. 162, Scarborough On the Trail of Negro Folksongs 46ff., Pub. Texas Folklore Soc. V 5—48; English: Williams Folksongs of the upper Thames 133f.; Welsh: Journ. Welsh Folksong Soc. I (IV) 178 No. 18.
B284.2. Wedding of toad. Bulgarian: Rosen Bulgarische Volksdichtungen 233. (See also B283.1.)
B285. Wedding of insects.
B285.1. Wedding of ant. (See B281.8.) — Revue des Langues Romanes 2e Ser. IV (1877) 27ff. (louse); Rhaetian: Decurtins "Rätoromanische Christomatie" Romanische Forschungen XXVII (1910) 182f. (grasshopper); French: Arnaudin Chants pop. de la Grande-Lande I 345ff. (finch); Italian: Nigra Canti pop. de Piemonte No. 127 (cricket), *Zs. f. Vksk. XII 167f., 169n. 2 (grasshopper).
B285.2. Wedding of cricket. (See B285.1.) — Lettish: Andrejanoff Lettische Volkslieder 39 No. 115.
B285.3. Wedding of grasshopper. (See B285.1.)
B285.4. Wedding of fly. Danish: Abrahamson, Nyerup, og Rahbek Udvalgte Danske Viser (II) 104f. No. 40 (horsefly); German: Hoffmann-Richter Schlesische Volkslieder 71f., Jungbauer Bibliographie d. deutschen Volksliedes in Böhmen 31 (beetle); Zs. f. Vksk. XXII 421.
B285.5. Wedding of flea. French: Blade Poesies pop. de la Gascogne III 291ff., Soleville Chants pop. du Bas-Quercy 310ff.; Spanish: Marin Cantos pop. Españoles I 74ff.
B285.6. Wedding of butterfly. French: Kuhff Les Enfantines 174, RTP V 16f, Bujeaud Chants de l'Ouest I 38.
