μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Animals grateful for rescue from peril of death.

Animals. · Friendly animals. · Grateful animals. · Animals grateful for rescue from peril of death. · view the constellation · filed as B360

Filed across the traditions
  • Icel. Boberg (B364.5). – India: *Thompson-Balys
  • Japanese Anesaki 321ff.
  • Chinese Graham, Eberhard FFC CXX 29 No. 17
  • Korean Zong in-Sob 175 f. No. 76. – Africa (Gold Coast): Barker and Sinclair 163 No. 32
  • Missouri French Carrière.
  • general *Types 554, 554*, 560
  • general *BP II 21f., 454
  • general *Dh IV 147ff.
  • general Chauvin II 109 No. 73
  • general Hartland Perseus III 194
  • general *Brown Iwain 16 and passim, 132 n. 3
  • general Hüsing (G.) "Zum Etanamythos" Archiv f. Religionswiss. VI 178ff.
  • general Alphabet No. 166
  • general Wienert FFC LVI 70 (ET 338, 339), 127 (ST 353), Halm Aesop Nos. 92, 130
  • general *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 648. Irish myth: Cross
  • general Ikeda
Within the index
6 finer motifs beneath it
Animals grateful for rescue from pit Animal grateful for rescue from drowning Animal grateful for rescue from net Animal grateful for other rescue Animal grateful for rescue of its young Animal grateful for ransom from captivity
Carried in tale types

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