μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
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 *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 pitAnimal grateful for rescue from drowningAnimal grateful for other rescueAnimal grateful for rescue of its youngAnimal grateful for ransom from captivity
Travels with
Lion spared mouse: mouse grateful. Later releases lion from net. (Cf. B363.)
Carried in tale types

wander