μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Animal as servant to man.

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

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Filed under Other animals with human traits.

15 finer motifs beneath 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 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
Filed beside it
Swine march like soldiers Animal as messenger Animals dance Animals in business relations Animal drives carriage Animals go a-journeying Musical animals Animal plays game Other animals with human traits – miscellaneous
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Animal as servant of saint. (Cf. B292.)
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Blind god. Hödhr Goddess of mercy Animal as domestic servant 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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