Helpful animal's injunctions disobeyed. Disaster follows — Mythoi

Motif

Helpful animal's injunctions disobeyed. Disaster follows.

Animals. · Friendly animals. · Helpful animals – general. · Treatment of helpful animals – miscellaneous. · view the constellation · filed as B341

Filed across the traditions

Missouri French Carrière
N. Am. Indian (Menomini) Hoffman RBAE XIV 183, (Zuñi): Cushing 54.
general Type 531
general MacCulloch Childhood 229

Within the index

Filed under Treatment of helpful animals – miscellaneous.

Filed beside it

Cat leaves house when report is made of death of one of his companions. His master has been told to say "Robert is dead". As soon as this is said, the cat leaves Large reward given for return of helpful animal

Carried in tale types

The Clever Horse (previously Ferdinand the True and Ferdinand the False) · ATU 531 864 recorded variants

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