Lion spared mouse: mouse grateful. Later releases lion from net. (Cf. B363.)
Animals. · Friendly animals. · Grateful animals. · Animal grateful to captor for release. · view the constellation · filed as B371.1
Motif
Filed across the traditions
- India *Thompson-Balys.
- general Jacobs Aesop 203 No. 11, Halm Aesop 256, – Spanish Exempla: Keller
Within the index
Filed under Small animal released from jaws of large one: grateful.
Filed beside it
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Carried in tale types
- The Help of the Weak · ATU 75 2 recorded variants
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