Child feeds snake from its milk-bottle

Motif

Child feeds snake from its milk-bottle.

Animals. · Friendly animals. · Grateful animals. · Animals grateful for other kind acts. · view the constellation · filed as B391.1

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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.

general *Type 285
general BP II 459, cf. II 463. India: Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Animal grateful for food.

3 finer motifs beneath it

Cobra grateful to prince for milk Snake grateful because man feeds her young snakes milk Snake grateful for pouring milk into its hole

Filed beside it

Child shares food with toad Hero kills horse to feed young ravens Animals given water to drink: grateful

Carried in tale types

The Child and the Snake · ATU 2851 recorded variant

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