The Wisdom of Many: Essays on the ProverbWolfgang Mieder, Alan Dundes |
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... hoopoe's habits and traits of uncleanliness is practically coexistent with the geographical occurrence of the bird . This bad reputation of the hoopoe is recorded as early as the Pentateuch . It is a part of the ornithological lore of ...
... hoopoe's habits and traits of uncleanliness is practically coexistent with the geographical occurrence of the bird . This bad reputation of the hoopoe is recorded as early as the Pentateuch . It is a part of the ornithological lore of ...
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... hoopoe is not named , but there is an illustration featuring the hoopoe ] . In sein eigen nest hofieren wie ein widhopf ( = hoopoe ) . [ Sebastian Franck , 1541 : see above I , ( 22 ) ] . Turpis avis spurcum proprium facit upupa nidum ...
... hoopoe is not named , but there is an illustration featuring the hoopoe ] . In sein eigen nest hofieren wie ein widhopf ( = hoopoe ) . [ Sebastian Franck , 1541 : see above I , ( 22 ) ] . Turpis avis spurcum proprium facit upupa nidum ...
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... hoopoe lore one with the other . I permitted them to have being separately . I was inclined to demand oriental ... hoopoe's mother in the head of the young hoopoe . This story is told in order to praise the filial piety of the young bird ...
... hoopoe lore one with the other . I permitted them to have being separately . I was inclined to demand oriental ... hoopoe's mother in the head of the young hoopoe . This story is told in order to praise the filial piety of the young bird ...
Contents
Proverbs in Africa | 10 |
On the Structure of the Proverb | 43 |
Towards a Structural Analysis of Yiddish Proverbs | 65 |
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