Helpful cat — Mythoi

Motif

Helpful cat.

Animals. · Friendly animals. · Kinds of helpful animals. · Helpful beasts. · Helpful domestic beasts. · view the constellation · filed as B422

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Scholars’ trail — 13references

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
BretonSébillot Incidents s.v. "chat"
Missouri FrenchCarrière
ScotchCampbell II 279, *284ff.
India*Thompson-Balys
JapaneseMitford 253
KoreanZong in-Sob 28 No. 12
TongaGifford 201.
general *Types 402, 545, 560
general *BP I 325, II 30, 455, III 487
general *Aarne MSFO XXV 48
general *Dh IV 147ff.
general *Fb "kat" II 108a. Irish myth: Cross

Within the index

Filed under Helpful domestic beasts.

Filed beside it

Helpful horse 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.)

Travels with

Magic cat. (Cf. B211.8, B422.)

Carried in tale types

Puss in Boots · ATU 545B6 recorded variants
The Magic Ring · ATU 5606 recorded variants
The Animal Bride (previously The Mouse [Cat, Frog, etc · ATU 4022 recorded variants
The Cat Castle · ATU 545A1 recorded variant

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