μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Helpful horse.

Animals. · Friendly animals. · Kinds of helpful animals. · Helpful beasts. · Helpful domestic beasts. · view the constellation · filed as B401

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Filed across the traditions
  • Welsh MacCulloch Celtic 94
  • Greek Frazer Apollodorus I 372 n. 1. – Irish myth: Cross → on our shelf: The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK III, ch. VI
  • Icel. *Boberg
  • Spanish Exempla Keller
  • Italian Novella Rotunda. – Breton: *Sébillot Incidents s.v. "animaux"
  • French Canadian *Barbeau JAFL XXIX 15
  • Missouri French Carrière
  • Cape Verde Islands *Parson MAFLS XV (1) 277 No. 91, 281 No. 92. – India: *Thompson-Balys. – Philippine: Fansler MAFLS XII 280, 284.
  • general *Type 314, 502, 531, 532
  • general BP III 94ff., III 18ff., II 273ff
  • general *Fb "hest"
  • general *Köhler-Bolte I 468. Wienert FFC LVI *70 (ET 347), 127 (ST 358)
  • general Halm Aesop No. 173
Within the index

Filed under Helpful domestic beasts.

1 finer motif beneath it
Helpful water-horse
Filed beside it
Helpful ass Helpful mule Helpful camel Helpful cow. (Cf. B354.) Helpful sheep Helpful goat Helpful hog Helpful dog. (Cf. B524.1.1, B268.2.1. War-dogs.) Helpful cat
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Bird language learned by having ears magically cleansed Animals save person's life. (Cf. B540.) Tabu: revealing secrets of god Tabu: man looking at nude goddess Transformation: man to woman Man looks at copulating snakes: transformed to woman. (Cf. D12.) Sphinx propounds riddle on pain of death Riddle of the Sphinx: what is it that goes on four legs in the morning, on two at midday, and on three in the evening. (Man, who crawls as a child, walks in middle life, and walks with a stick in old age.) Zeus smites Capaneus while he is climbing a ladder Punishment for splitting head and eating man's brains Punishment: banishment (exile) Blinding as punishment
Carried in tale types

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