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Motif

Thorn removed from lion's paw (Androcles and the Lion). In gratitude the lion later rewards the man.

Animals. · Friendly animals. · Grateful animals. · Animal grateful for relief from pain. · view the constellation · filed as B381

Cited in the index
  • general *Type 156
  • general *BP III 1 n. 2
  • general Cf. Type 74*
  • general Jacobs Aesop 205 No. 23
  • general Wienert FFC LVI 70 (ET 345), 127 (ST 357)
  • general *Krappe Bulletin Hispanique XXXIX 29
  • general **Brodeur (A.G.) "The Grateful Lion" PMLA XXXIX 485
  • general Herbert Catalogue of Romances III 210
  • general Penzer V 162 n. 1, IX 47 n. 1
  • general Alphabet No. 451
  • general Oesterley Gesta Romanorum No. 278. – *Loomis White Magic 58–61. – Spanish Exempla: Keller. – India: *Thompson-Balys. – Chinese: Graham. – N. Am. Indian (Wyandot): Barbeau GSCan XI 106 No. 29.
Within the index

Filed under Animal grateful for relief from pain.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Wolf fetches a man to remove thorn from his children's paws. Does not attack the man's livestock Thorn removed from monkey's tail
Filed beside it
Grateful hyena leads lost hermit from wilderness as reward for his help 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

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