μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 11references

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 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 livestockThorn removed from monkey's tail
Filed beside it
Grateful hyena leads lost hermit from wilderness as reward for his helpAnimal grateful for removal of bone lodged in its throatMan called by animal for help to his cubs in dangerSaint 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 gratefulSerpent relieved from sand blown in eyes: gratefulTigress grateful for opening of abscessTiger grateful for woman assisting tigress as midwifeCobra grateful for cure of ulcer
Carried in tale types

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