I100C. The Pleiades and the Cuckoo. 16.28.31.
God turned her husband into a cuckoo, and his wife and children into Pleiades.
Germans, Czechs, Danes.
Western Europe. Germans: Dähnhardt 1910 [East Prussia: husband mistreated his wife and seven children; they turned to God; God punished her husband by making him a cuckoo, turning a woman with children into stars; wife became the Evening Star, the children of the Pleiades; during the cuckoo, the Pleiades hide; 2) Mecklenburg: The Pleiades are the wife and children of the Cuckoo; 3) Pomerania: the husband quarreled with his wife, became a cuckoo, the wife with children - the Pleiades ]: 426-427; Grimm 1883 [Christ, passing by the bakery, asked the owner for bread, who refused; but the baker's wife and her six daughters secretly fed Christ; for this he placed them in heaven, making them the Pleiades; husband punished, turning it into a cuckoo; while she cuckoo, the Pleiades are not visible in the sky]: 729.
Central Europe. Czechs [Christ and his disciples went to the bakery, asked for bread; the owner refused, but the hostess gave her; Christ placed her and her children in heaven, these are the Pleiades, and turned the owner into a cuckoo]: Dänhardt 1909: 127.
Baltoscandia. Danes [a girl gave birth to seven illegitimate children; the man called them the children of a hooker; God turned him into a cuckoo, a woman with children in the Pleiades; they are not visible when the cuckoo cuckoo cuckoo cuckoo is cuckoo]: Dähnhardt 1910:427.