Animal grateful for rescue from net — Mythoi

Motif

Animal grateful for rescue from net.

Animals. · Friendly animals. · Grateful animals. · Animals grateful for rescue from peril of death. · view the constellation · filed as B363

Cited in the index

general *Type 75
general Crane Vitry 194 No. 145. India: Thompson-Balys – Africa (Zanzibar): Bateman: 81 No. 6.

Within the index

Filed under Animals grateful for rescue from peril of death.

1 finer motif beneath it

Lion is freed from net by mouse. Mouse asks that his son marry lion's daughter. Request granted. The mouse is trampled to death by his bride

Filed beside it

Animals grateful for rescue from pit Animal grateful for rescue from drowning Animal grateful for other rescue Animal grateful for rescue of its young Animal grateful for ransom from captivity

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Lion spared mouse: mouse grateful. Later releases lion from net. (Cf. B363.)

Carried in tale types

The Help of the Weak · ATU 75 2 recorded variants

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