The Golden Bird (Berber folktale)

The Golden Bird (French: L'oiseau d'or) is a Berber tale from Kabylia, collected by author Mouloud Mammeri. It is related to the theme of the calumniated wife and classified in the international Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index as type ATU 707, "The Three Golden Children". These tales refer to stories where a girl promises a king she will bear a child or children with wonderful attributes, but her jealous relatives or the king's wives plot against the babies and their mother. Variants are collected in Algeria and in Kabylie, among the Berbers.

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