Faithful animal at master's grave dies of hunger

Motif

Faithful animal at master's grave dies of hunger.

Animals. · Friendly animals. · Helpful animals – general. · Helpful animal. · view the constellation · filed as B301.1

Scholars’ trail — 4references

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.

Icel.*Boberg.
general *Type 75*
general *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 428
general cf. Alphabet No. 270

Within the index

Filed under Faithful animal.

3 finer motifs beneath it

Faithful dog follows master's dead body when cast into river. Supports body Faithful dog helps open mistress' grave – dies on it. [Inadvertant duplication of B301.7.1.]Faithful animal doesn't allow anybody to come near to master's corpse

Filed beside it

Faithful animal at master's grave avenges his murder Faithful animal plans suicide when it thinks master dead Faithful horse follows dead master to grave Faithful animals resuscitate master Faithful cattle fight at master's grave until they cast their horns Faithful lapdog dies when mistress dies Faithful lion follows man who saved him

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