Animal grateful for removal of bone lodged in its throat

Motif

Animal grateful for removal of bone lodged in its throat.

Animals. · Friendly animals. · Grateful animals. · Animal grateful for relief from pain. · view the constellation · filed as B382

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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.

IndiaThompson-Balys
S. Am. Indian (Cashinawa)Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 685.

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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 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

Travels with

Crane pulls bone from wolf's throat: wolf refuses payment. "That you were allowed to take your beak from my throat is payment enough." (Cf. B382.)

Carried in tale types

Androcles and the Lion (previously Thorn Removed from Lion's Paw [Androcles and the Lion]) · ATU 1561 recorded variant

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