B. Animals
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B652. Marriage to bird in human form.
B652.1. Marriage to swan-maiden. See all references for D361.1.
D361.1. Swan maiden. T56.3. Wooing bathing nymphs by stealing their clothes.
B652.2. Man marries crane in human form. Japanese: Ikeda, Anesaki 324.
B652.3. Marriage to dove-maiden. Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 260.
B652.4. Marriage to woodpecker in human form. S. A. Indian (Toba): Métraux MAFLS XL 146.
B653. Marriage to insect in human form.
B653.1. Marriage to bee in human form. Indonesian: Dixon 219.
B654. Marriage to fish in human form. Irish myth: Cross (B612.0.1); India: Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 47f., 142; Africa (Congo): Weeks 216.
B655. Marriage to amphibia in human form.
B656.1. Marriage to python in human form. Africa (Kaffir): Kidd 249.
B656.2. Marriage to serpent in human form. Hindu: Penzer VI 73 n. 2; India: *Thompson-Balys; Indo-Chinese: Scott 276; S. A. Indian (Toba): Métraux MAFLS XL 66; Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen III 76, 201. — Krappe CFQ III (1944) 138ff.
B659. Marriage to other animals in human form.
B670. Unusual mating between animals.
B671. Goose mates with crow. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 884.
B672. Mythical tiger has family of jaguars. S. A. Indian (Chiriguano): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 155.
B690. Marriage of person to animal — miscellaneous.
B691. Relatives kill animal-husband but wife throws herself into pyre. India: Thompson-Balys.
B700—B799. Fanciful traits of animals.
B700. Fanciful traits of animals.
A2200. Animal characteristics. B15. Animal with unusual limbs or members. F980. Extraordinary occurrences concerning animals. H1186. Task: making pigs dance. T591.1.2. Milk of hornless, single-colored cow drunk by man to make wife fruitful.
B710. Fanciful origin of animals.
A1700. Creation of animals. B12.1. Basilisk hatched from cock's egg. B16.14.1. Devastating elephant from divine world. B19.3. Horse born of egg. T573.0.1. Short pregnancy in animals.
B710.1. Fanciful origin of the jackal. India: Thompson-Balys.
B710.2. Clever and swift horse of fanciful origin.
B710.2.1. Clever and swift horse fed with worms' milk on the gold mountain Tecklen in India. Icel.: *Boberg.
