Ox helps patriarch who in joy kisses him on the lips: hence no hair on ox's lips

Motif

Ox helps patriarch who in joy kisses him on the lips: hence no hair on ox's lips.

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Various causes of animal characteristics. · Animal characteristics as reward. · view the constellation · filed as A2221.5.1

Filed across the traditions

Jewish bin Gorion Born Judas III 118, 304, *Neuman.

Within the index

Filed under Animal blessed for helping holy fugitive. (Cf. A2231.7.1.)

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Why steer has no hair on his nose. (Cf. A2221.5.1.) Why ox has no hair on his lips. (Cf. A2221.5.1.)

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