Animals perform offices of church — Mythoi

Motif

Animals perform offices of church.

Animals. · Animals with human traits. · Religious animals. · view the constellation · filed as B253

Within the index

Filed under Religious animals.

6 finer motifs beneath it

Snakes have mass Wolves have annual (church) feast Fox fasts as penance. (Cf. B251.4.) Spider performs penance The deer with a cross carried between their horns Deer with candles on the tops of their antlers

Filed beside it

Animals praise or worship Animal churchmen Miracle wrought for animal Animal as servant of saint. (Cf. B292.) Animal funeral Miscellaneous religious animals

Carried in tale types

The Two Travelers · ATU 613 162 recorded variants

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