Faithful cattle fight at master's grave until they cast their horns

Motif

Faithful cattle fight at master's grave until they cast their horns.

Animals. · Friendly animals. · Helpful animals – general. · Helpful animal. · view the constellation · filed as B301.6

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

Irish mythCross.

Within the index

Filed under Faithful animal.

3 finer motifs beneath it

Faithful cattle shed horns in grief for death of man Faithful cow refuses to move for grief at master's death Faithful cows lose milk at king's death

Filed beside it

Faithful animal at master's grave dies of hunger 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 lapdog dies when mistress dies Faithful lion follows man who saved him

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