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

Motif

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

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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.

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

Lion spares fly: fly grateful. Later warns lion

Travels with

Animal grateful for rescue from net

Carried in tale types

The Help of the Weak · ATU 752 recorded variants

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