Helpful animals a gift — Mythoi

Motif

Helpful animals a gift.

Animals. · Friendly animals. · Helpful animals – general. · Acquisition of helpful animal. · view the constellation · filed as B312.1

Filed across the traditions

German Grimm No. 60, 126 → on our shelf: Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 60
Irish myth Cross
Spanish Boggs FFC XC 40 No. 300
Icel. Boberg, Þiðriks saga I 314–18
India Thompson-Balys
Japanese Ikeda.

Within the index

Filed under Helpful animals obtained by purchase or gift.

Filed beside it

Helpful animals obtained by exchange Helpful animal(s) bequeathed to hero Helpful animal purchased Helpful, strong horse caught

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

Treasure from bird's feathers Speaking lion Speaking bear Speaking wolf Speaking fox Speaking hare (rabbit) Release of animal by hunter (fisher) Magic objects possessed by witch, sorcerer or evil dwarf. (Cf. F451.7, G234, D1711.) Witch lives in forest Witch transforms to stone One brother rescues another from ogre Inscribed name on article as token of ownership. (Cf. H94.10.)

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