Mare with foal left behind finds road home. The foal is left so that the force of nature in the mare will discover the unknown road home

Motif

Mare with foal left behind finds road home. The foal is left so that the force of nature in the mare will discover the unknown road home.

Animals. · Magic animals. · Animals with magic wisdom. · Oracular animals. · view the constellation · filed as B151.1.1.1

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

general Hdwb. d. deutschen Märchens s.v. "Ariadnefaden" n. 15.

Within the index

Filed under Horses determine road to be taken. They are left to pick out the road themselves and to stop at the destination.

Filed beside it

Horses travel between clerics without guidance Horse stops where murder has occurred Horse allowed to go as it pleases, finds unknown person Ass determines road to be taken

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