μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Ass insists upon payment of tithes. When stolen by thieves, the ass refuses to eat for three days because the thieves' provender has not been tithed.

Animals. · Animals with human traits. · Religious animals. · view the constellation · filed as B259.1

Filed across the traditions
  • Hebrew Gaster Exempla 228 No. 235
  • Jewish Neuman.
Within the index

Filed under Miscellaneous religious animals.

Filed beside it
Sabbath-keeping cow. Refuses to work on Sabbath Hog will not accept food from excommunicated men Bees build church of wax to contain consecrated host. (Cf. A2012.1.) Bird's wings drip blood when birds hear of Day of Judgment

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