μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
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Filed under Animal as servant to man.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Frog works in fields for benefactorChicken as laborerRat servants cut jungle down, till soil for master
Filed beside it
Animals with human child as slaveAnimals leave wicked and go to pious masterAnimal as shepherd for manAnimal as domestic servantDoe 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 treasureDog made kingTiger carries load of wood for saintSerpent as saint's whipAss as tollkeeper

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