μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Helpful animal. See also entire section B300–599, especially B350.

Animals. · Friendly animals. · Helpful animals – general. · Helpful animal. · view the constellation · filed as B300

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“A deliverer was sent to them in the person of Jonayafyin, the son of the old woman who lives in the West, and the second wife of the Sun. She divided her time between the Sun and the Water-fall, and by the latter bore a second son, named Ko- bachischini, who remained with his mother while his brother went forth to battle with the enemies of mankind. In four days Jonayafyin grew to manhood,™ then he asked his mother where the Elk lived.”

Tales of the North American Indians, Tale 43 · served from our shelf  receiptuncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

Attested across traditions
Scholars’ trail — 2references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

  • general *Krappe "Guiding animals" JAFL LV (1942) 228–246
  • general "Warning animals" FL LIX (1948) 8–15. – *Toldo Studien zur vgl. Littgsch. VIII 38. – Irish myth: Cross. – Hindu: Penzer I 101f., V 157f., 163f., VI 291, VIII 219. – India: Thompson-Balys. – N. Am. Indian: *Thompson Tales 316 n. 146. – Philippine: Fansler MAFLS XII 313.
Within the index
1 finer motif beneath it
Faithful animal
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Thunderbird. A mythical giant bird usually thought of as a thunder-godRoc. A giant bird which carries off men in its clawsGrateful animalsHelpful wild beasts – felidaeAnimal nurse. Animal nourishes abandoned childBat rescues man from height. Bat lets him down in a spider-web basketMagic footwearMagic arrowMagic ballMagic bone gives advice. (Cf. D1013.)Miraculous speed from magic objectMagic arrow flight. Man keeps ahead of arrow which he shoots. (Cf. D1092.)

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