μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Animal as domestic servant.

Animals. · Animals with human traits. · Other animals with human traits. · view the constellation · filed as B292.2

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Filed under Animal as servant to man.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Monkey as domestic servant Bird as domestic servant Lion as domestic servant
Filed beside it
Animals with human child as slave Animals leave wicked and go to pious master Animal as shepherd for man Doe furnishes man milk Stags plow for man. Also draw chariot, bear burdens, and allow saints to use their horns as a book rest Bird sings to console man Black cat as servant of giant Otters supply man with fish and burning wood daily Dog as guardian of treasure Animal as farm laborer Dog made king Tiger carries load of wood for saint Serpent as saint's whip Ass as tollkeeper
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Blind god. Hödhr Goddess of mercy Animal as servant to man Helpful tiger Transformation: man to tiger Transformation: instruments of torture to lotus flowers Magic object acquired as reward for religious austerities Magic peach Magic hairpin Magic waters and medicines Magic salve (ointment) Magic peach gives immunity from age. (Cf. D981.2.)

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