μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Helpful animal reincarnation of parent. The dead mother appears to the heroine in the form of an animal.

Animals. · Friendly animals. · Helpful animals – general. · Acquisition of helpful animal. · view the constellation · filed as B313.1

Filed across the traditions
  • Japanese Ikeda.
  • general *Cox Cinderella 475 n. 4
  • general BP I 187, III 60ff. – India: *Thompson-Balys, *Cosquin Contes indiens 505ff.
Within the index

Filed under Helpful animal an enchanted person.

Filed beside it
Helpful animal reincarnation of murdered child

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