μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Animals grateful for rescue from pit.

Animals. · Friendly animals. · Grateful animals. · Animals grateful for rescue from peril of death. · view the constellation · filed as B361

Filed across the traditions
  • Spanish Exempla Keller
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Japanese Ikeda
  • Chinese Eberhard FFC CXX 30. – Africa: Frobenius Atlantis IX 385 Nos. 103f., (Swahili): Steere 423, (Zanzibar): Bateman 81 No. 6, (Gold Coast): Barker and Sinclair 163 No. 32.
  • general *Type 160
  • general Chauvin I 106 No. 71
  • general Ward II 196
  • general Bødker Exempler 304 No. 75
  • general *Oesterley Gesta Romanorum No. 119
  • general Wienert FFC LVI 70 (ET 346), 127 (ST 357), Phaedrus III 2
  • general BP IV 139f
  • general *Moe Samlede Skrifter I 192ff.
  • general Hilka Compilatio Singularis Exemplorum 23
  • general Wesselski Märchen 246 No. 56. Krappe Bulletin Hispanique XXXIX 31
  • general *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 649. – Hindu: *Penzer V 157
Within the index

Filed under Animals grateful for rescue from peril of death.

Filed beside it
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
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Capture in pitfall. (Cf. B361.)
Carried in tale types

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