ATU 2041. The Bird Indifferent to Pain

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At this site:
Parker. The Mango Bird
Crooke-Rouse. The Talking Thrush
Cronise. The Devil Turns Pigeon
Talley. Fishing Simon

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Z49.3 [ATU 2041] The bird indifferent to pain. A man catches a mango-bird eating mangoes and strikes it against the roots of a mango tree. The bird cannot be made to say it suffers from the blow. In turn, he puts it in water, strikes it on the ground, a stile, a doorframe, singes its feathers, cuts it up, cooks it, and eats it. The bird always expresses indifference in a cumulative rhyme. At last the bird asks him to look out of the window, whereupon it flies out of his nose and the man dies.