Animal grateful for relief from pain — Mythoi

Motif

Animal grateful for relief from pain.

Animals. · Friendly animals. · Grateful animals. · Animal grateful for relief from pain. · view the constellation · filed as B380

Filed across the traditions

Spanish Exempla Keller
India Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

9 finer motifs beneath it

Grateful hyena leads lost hermit from wilderness as reward for his help Thorn removed from lion's paw (Androcles and the Lion). In gratitude the lion later rewards the man Animal grateful for removal of bone lodged in its throat Man called by animal for help to his cubs in danger Saint cures the blind young ones of a hyena or wolf by the sign of the cross and the application of his saliva. (Cf. D1500.1.8.1.) The animal mother is grateful Serpent relieved from sand blown in eyes: grateful Tigress grateful for opening of abscess Tiger grateful for woman assisting tigress as midwife Cobra grateful for cure of ulcer

Carried in tale types

The Flight on the Grateful Eagle (previously The Marvelous Eagle Gives the Hero a Box) · ATU 537 1 recorded variant

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