μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Animal grateful for rescue from drowning.

Animals. · Friendly animals. · Grateful animals. · Animals grateful for rescue from peril of death. · view the constellation · filed as B362

Filed across the traditions
  • Chinese Graham
  • Japanese Ikeda
  • general Wienert FFC LVI 59 (ET 201), 127 (ST 356), Halm Aesop No. 296 (dove rescues ant). India: Thompson-Balys
  • general Korea: Ikeda.
Within the index

Filed under Animals grateful for rescue from peril of death.

Filed beside it
Animals grateful for rescue from pit 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.)
Helpful dove. (Cf. B362.) Helpful ant. (Cf. B362.)
Carried in tale types

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