Helpful bull. (Cf. B182.3.1.)

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

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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.

Missouri-FrenchCarrière.
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

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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