Hero divides spoil for animals

Motif

Hero divides spoil for animals.

Animals. · Friendly animals. · Grateful animals. · Animals grateful for other kind acts. · view the constellation · filed as B392

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Scholars’ trail — 5references

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.

Italian NovellaRotunda. – Missouri-French: Carrière
Africa (Angola)Chatelain 70 No. 3.
general *Type 300
general Fb "dele" IV 96b
general *BP II 22 n. 1. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. *554A.

Within the index

Filed under Animals grateful for other kind acts.

1 finer motif beneath it

Animals grateful for being given appropriate food. Hero finds dog with hay and horse with meat. He changes it about

Filed beside it

Animal grateful for food Animals grateful for shelter Cow grateful for being milked. (Cf. B411.)Buffaloes grateful for care of their calves Cows grateful for hero's housekeeping for them

Carried in tale types

Quarrel over the Stag · ATU 159*1 recorded variant

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