Helpful animal(s) bequeathed to hero

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Helpful animal(s) bequeathed to hero.

Animals. · Friendly animals. · Helpful animals – general. · Acquisition of helpful animal. · view the constellation · filed as B312.3

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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.

Italian NovellaRotunda
IndiaThompson-Balys
Africa (Hausa)Best Black Folk Tales 71ff., Tremearne Hausa Superstitions and Customs 374ff. No. 79
Madagascar(Marofotsy) Renel Contes de Madagascar I 65ff. No. 9.

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