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

Motif

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.

Animals. · Friendly animals. · Helpful animals – general. · Treatment of helpful animals – miscellaneous. · view the constellation · filed as B342

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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 *Boberg Sagnet om den store Pans Dod, København 1934. – Irish: Beal III 66. – U.S.: Baughman
general Taylor Washington University Studies X (Hum. Ser.) 60ff.

Within the index

Filed under Treatment of helpful animals – miscellaneous.

Filed beside it

Helpful animal's injunctions disobeyed. Disaster follows Large reward given for return of helpful animal

Carried in tale types

Pan Is Dead (previously King of the Cats Is Dead) · ATU 113A1 recorded variant

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