Woman slays faithful mongoose which has saved her child. "A Classical Indian Folk-Tale as a Reported Modern Event: The Brahman and the Mongoose"

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Woman slays faithful mongoose which has saved her child. "A Classical Indian Folk-Tale as a Reported Modern Event: The Brahman and the Mongoose"

Animals. · Friendly animals. · Helpful animals – general. · Death of helpful animal. · view the constellation · filed as B331.2.1

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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India*Thompson-Balys.
general Proceedings, American Philosophical Society, LXXXIII 503–13

Within the index

Filed under Llewellyn and his dog. Dog has saved child from serpent. Father sees bloody mouth, thinks the dog has eaten the child, and kills the dog.

Filed beside it

Faithful dog killed by overhasty master: thinks mistakenly he has returned home against orders. (Cf. Llewellyn and his dog.)

Carried in tale types

The Innocent Dog (previously Llewellyn and His Dog) · ATU 178A1 recorded variant

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