μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Animals ring bell and demand justice. A king has a bell which petitioners for justice may ring and thus summon him. The bell is rung by a serpent which is being menaced by a turtle (or by an old horse who wishes to complain against a cruel master).

Animals. · Animals with human traits. · Animals in legal relations. · view the constellation · filed as B271.3

Filed across the traditions
  • Italian Novella Rotunda.
  • general *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 648
  • general *Wesselski Theorie 20
Within the index

Filed under Animals as plaintiffs.

Filed beside it
Parrot and sparrow argue right to inherit property left by man. Sparrow says his interests are the same as man's; parrot says that he caused all man's wealth, since man sold his feathers. People's decision for parrot Grain as damages for injury to cat
Carried in tale types

ask the rhapsode about this motif · search the shelf for “petitioners” · wander