Truth-speaking horse — Mythoi

Motif

Truth-speaking horse.

Animals. · Magic animals. · Animals with magic wisdom. · Truth-telling animals. · view the constellation · filed as B133

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Greco-Roman Pausanias's Description of Greece , Book 7

Cited in the index

general Type 531
general BP III (Gr. No. 126).

Within the index

Filed under Truth-telling animals.

5 finer motifs beneath it

Truth-telling ass (mule) Horse warns hero of danger Horse reveals treachery. (Cf. B131.2.) Speaking horse-head. The helpful magic horse (B181) is killed (B330). The head is preserved and placed on the wall. It speaks and reveals the treachery practiced against the heroine Horse refuses to carry one who speaks falsehood

Filed beside it

Bird of truth. A bird which reveals the truth. (Cf. B122, B141, B172.) Truth-speaking cow Truth-telling dog Truth-telling cat Truth-telling deer

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Horses in tales and legends. (Cf. B41.1, B41.2, B103, B133, B149.1, B151, B181, B811.1.)

Carried in tale types

The Clever Horse (previously Ferdinand the True and Ferdinand the False) · ATU 531 288 recorded variants

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