Helpful animal an enchanted person

Motif

Helpful animal an enchanted person.

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

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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.

general *Types 314, 328 (FFC LXXXIII), 402, 510, 530, 531, 532, 533, 545, 550, 551.

Within the index

Filed under Acquisition of helpful animal.

2 finer motifs beneath it

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

Filed beside it

Congenital helpful animal. Born at same time as master and (usually) by same magic means Helpful animals obtained by purchase or gift Helpful animal brothers-in-law Animal helpful after being conquered Abused and pampered horses. Hero is ordered by ogre to feed and care for certain horse and to neglect other horse. Hero disobeys and feeds neglected horse. Latter is enchanted prince and helps hero. (Cf. B181.)Helpful bird hatched by hero. Hero holds eagle's egg in hand and hatches it. Young eagle becomes his helper Helpful animals transformed from other animals Helpful animal otherwise acquired

Carried in tale types

The Clever Horse (previously Ferdinand the True and Ferdinand the False) · ATU 531288 recorded variants
Bird, Horse and Princess (previously Search for the Golden Bird) · ATU 55020 recorded variants
The Animal Bride (previously The Mouse [Cat, Frog, etc · ATU 4021 recorded variant

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