Ass determines road to be taken — Mythoi

Motif

Ass determines road to be taken.

Animals. · Magic animals. · Animals with magic wisdom. · Oracular animals. · view the constellation · filed as B151.1.1.2

Filed across the traditions

Jewish Neuman.

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.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Ass carries usurer's body to the gallows instead of to the church. He has been denied burial in the church Baalam's ass. Advises master that angel is barring the way

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 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

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