μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Helpful bull. (Cf. B182.3.1.)

Animals. · Friendly animals. · Kinds of helpful animals. · Helpful beasts. · Helpful domestic beasts. · view the constellation · filed as B411.1

Filed across the traditions
  • Missouri-French Carrière.
  • general Cox Cinderella 365 (Swedish). – Irish myth: Cross. – Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "animaux". – India: Thompson-Balys. – N. Am. Indian (Wyandot): Thompson CColl II 412
Within the index

Filed under Helpful cow. (Cf. B354.)

Filed beside it
Helpful ox Helpful calf Helpful buffalo Helpful bullock Helpful steer
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Magic bull to be flayed. The bull orders the hero (heroine) to flay him and to use his skin for magic purposes. (Cf. B192, B335, B411.1.)

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