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B712. Barnacle goose. Goose born from barnacles. – *Chauvin VII 18 No. 373C; Fb ”and“ IV 12b; Hdwb. d. Abergl. s.v. ”Baumgans“; Jewish: Neuman.
B713. Animal born from animal carcass. Jewish: *Neuman.
B713.2. Animal born from putrification. Jewish: Neuman.
B716. Animal born from human or animal bones. Jewish: Neuman.
B717. Animal born from earth. Jewish: Neuman.
B725. Female bears have no breasts to nurse their young; suck paws. Jewish: Neuman.
B731.13. Bird with changing color. Jewish: Neuman.
B731.14. Hyena with three hundred sixty-five different colors. Jewish: Neuman.
B733.1. Balaam’s ass perceives angel. Jewish: Neuman.
B733.2.1. Cock hears inaudible voice of dying man. Jewish: Neuman.
B736.4. Fox sheds tears. Jewish: Neuman.
B736.6. Calf sheds tears. Jewish: Neuman.
B741. Lion’s roar causes havoc at 300 miles. At 300 miles all women miscarry, at 200 teeth of all men drop out. – Gaster Exempla 187 No. 7; Jewish: Neuman.
B747.1. Strong teeth of lion. Jewish: Neuman.
B747.2. Locusts with jaw teeth strong as lion‘s. Jewish: Neuman.
B747.3. Mice gnaw through metal vessels. Jewish: Neuman.
B751.5. Animal neglects its young. Jewish: Neuman (raven, jackal, ostrich).
B751.6. Wolf strongly attracted to his own children. Jewish: Neuman.
B754. Sexual habits of animals. Jewish: *Neuman.
B754.1.1. Hyena changes sex yearly. Fable: Halm Aesop 405, Wienert FFC LVI 62 (ET 251), 131 (ST 376, 401); Jewish: Neuman.
B754.1.2. Hare changes sex periodically. Jewish: Neuman.
B754.6. Peacock pregnant without intercourse. Male spits up semen and female eats it. This as a curse. (Cf. A2236.5.) – India: *Thompson-Balys; Jewish: Neuman (raven).
B754.6.1.1. Animal impregnated through mouth (ears). Jewish: Neuman.
B754.7.2. Eagle catches gazelle‘s young as it is born. Jewish: Neuman.
B765. Fanciful qualities of snakes. (Cf. B91.3, B751.1, B752.2.) – Jewish: *Neuman.
B765.25. Female snake seven years pregnant. Jewish: Neuman.
B766.4. Bite of white she-mule causes certain death. Jewish: Neuman.
B768.2. Salamander subsists on fire. Hertz Gesammelte Abhandlungen 257 n.; Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: *Neuman.
B768.4. Serpent subsists on dust. Jewish: Neuman.
B771.2. Animal tamed by holiness of saint. Saint‘s legend: Plummer cxlvi; Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman; Icel.: Boberg.
B771.2.3. Lions made tame by Moses‘ rod. Jewish: Neuman.
B776.2. Toad considered venomous. (Cf. B776.5.1.) – Kittredge Witchcraft 181 nn. 67 – 71; Jewish: Neuman.
B792. Why certain animals are thought of as good or bad. Jewish: Neuman.
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