Animal bribed with food. (Sop to Cerberus.) — 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

Attested across traditions

North American Indigenous Tales of the North American Indians , Tale 39 receipt

Filed across the traditions

Finnish-Swedish Wessman 76 No. 632
Icel. *Boberg. Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 61 No. 445B, Spanish Exempla: Keller
India *Thompson-Balys
N. Am. Indian Thompson 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-law Animal as guard of person or house Guardian animals evaded Transformation: man to feather Protean beggar: Person assumes successive forms in order to beg Transformation combat. Fight between contestants who strive to outdo each other in successive transformations Transformation to reach difficult place Transformation to escape difficult situation Transformation to receive food Burning 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

Carried in tale types

The Dog Barks at the Thieves · ATU 201D* 1 recorded variant

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