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ATU 0567: Alle volksverhalen

- The Magic Bird-heart.

The Magic Bird-heart. A man eats the heart of a magic bird and thereby receives the power of spitting gold [B113.1] (of finding a coin under his pillow every day, he becomes king [D1561.1.1, M312.3]). A woman (his own wife) causes him to vomit the bird-heart, eats it herself (because she learned its secret from an old woman) [D861.5] and casts him out. He finds a magic herb that transforms people into donkies [D965, D983, D551.2, D132.1, D661]. With the help of the herb he changes the woman to donkey (and makes it work hard). Cf. Type 566.
In some variants he changes the woman back to a human being and marries her.

B113.1

D1561.1.1

M312.3

D861.5

D965

D983

D551.2

D132.1

D661

Probably of Oriental origin (see Tuti-Nme and Somadeva’s Kathsaritsgara). The variants of the Types 566, 567, and 567A are often mixed with each other or they are not clearly differentiated. (Type 567 may originate from a combination with Type 566.) Often an introduction to Type 303.

This type is usually combined with episodes of one or more other types, esp. 300, 303, 518, 531, 566, and 567A.

567

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