μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Animal bribed with food. (Sop to Cerberus.)

Animals. · Friendly animals. · Helpful animals – general. · Reward of helpful animal. · view the constellation · filed as B325.1

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“Then they exchanged arrows, the Sun giving him four arrows of his own. The points of these arrows were made of coal." Now the young man began to climb the mountain. When he came up to the goats, he took one of the arrows, aimed it, and shot. It struck the animals, but fell down without killing it. The same happened with the other arrows. When he had spent all his arrows, they rushed up to him from the four sides, intending to kill him.”

— Tales of the North American Indians, Tale 39 · served from our shelf  receiptuncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

Attested across traditions
Scholars’ trail — 7references

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.

  • Finnish-SwedishWessman 76 No. 632
  • Icel.*Boberg. Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 61 No. 445B, Spanish Exempla: Keller
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • N. Am. IndianThompson Tales 308 n. 113c. – Jamaica: Beckwith MAFLS XVII 273 No. 86.
  • general Types 531, 551
  • general BP III 18ff.
  • general *Chauvin VI 6 No. 182
Within the index

Filed under Animal bribed for help.

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Sun father-in-lawAnimal as guard of person or houseGuardian animals evadedTransformation: man to featherProtean beggar: Person assumes successive forms in order to begTransformation combat. Fight between contestants who strive to outdo each other in successive transformationsTransformation to reach difficult placeTransformation to escape difficult situationTransformation to receive foodBurning magically evaded. (Cf. D1656.)Resuscitation by arrangement of members. Parts of a dismembered corpse are brought together and resuscitation follows. (Sometimes combined with other methods.)Resuscitated eaten animal. (Cf. E171.) An animal is eaten. When his bones are reassembled he revives
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