Boar serves saint. (Cf. B183.) — Mythoi

Motif

Boar serves saint. (Cf. B183.)

Animals. · Animals with human traits. · Religious animals. · view the constellation · filed as B256.6

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth Cross.

Within the index

Filed under Animal as servant of saint. (Cf. B292.)

3 finer motifs beneath it

Boar guards holy man's swine Boar makes music for holy man Boar acts as physician for holy man: licks his wounded feet

Filed beside it

Animal deluded by saint Birds nest in saint's hand (cowl) St. Anthony's pigs. Pigs dedicated to saint held sacred Deer makes its horns available as a bookholder to a saint Domesticated wolves Obedience of the feathered creatures to the commands of saint Tiger sweeps temple for saint Saint's prayer causes wolf to bring back child Stags plow for saint Fly, wren, fox live with cleric Wolf returns sheep stolen from saint Whale raises back so that voyaging clerics can land to celebrate

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Magic quadrupeds – rodentia

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