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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“The Nunnery on Fire Seeing all these gods arrive to help the novice, the Superior, I Yu, held consultation with the choir-mistress, saying: "We assigned to the Princess the burdensome work of the kitchen because she refused to return to the world; but since she has entered on her duties the gods of the eight caves of Heaven have come to offer her fruit, Ch'ieh Lan sweeps the kitchen, the dragon has dug a well, the God of the Hearth and…”

— Myths & Legends of China, Chapter X · served from our shelf

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Filed under Animal as servant to man.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Monkey as domestic servantBird as domestic servantLion as domestic servant
Filed beside it
Animals with human child as slaveAnimals leave wicked and go to pious masterAnimal as shepherd for manDoe furnishes man milkStags plow for man. Also draw chariot, bear burdens, and allow saints to use their horns as a book restBird sings to console manBlack cat as servant of giantOtters supply man with fish and burning wood dailyDog as guardian of treasureAnimal as farm laborerDog made kingTiger carries load of wood for saintSerpent as saint's whipAss as tollkeeper
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Blind god. HödhrGoddess of mercyAnimal as servant to manHelpful tigerTransformation: man to tigerTransformation: instruments of torture to lotus flowersMagic object acquired as reward for religious austeritiesMagic peachMagic hairpinMagic waters and medicinesMagic salve (ointment)Magic peach gives immunity from age. (Cf. D981.2.)

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