Stags plow for man. Also draw chariot, bear burdens, and allow saints to use their horns as a book rest — Mythoi

Motif

Stags plow for man. Also draw chariot, bear burdens, and allow saints to use their horns as a book rest

Animals. · Animals with human traits. · Other animals with human traits. · view the constellation · filed as B292.4

Filed across the traditions

Saints' legend (Irish) Plummer cxliii–cxliv
Irish myth Cross
English Baughman.

Within the index

Filed under Animal as servant to man.

3 finer motifs beneath it

Wild oxen plow for man Tiger plows for man Dog plows for man

Filed beside it

Animals with human child as slave Animals leave wicked and go to pious master Animal as shepherd for man Animal as domestic servant Doe furnishes man milk 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

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