Helpful lion. (Cf. B549.1.)
Animals. · Friendly animals. · Kinds of helpful animals. · Helpful beasts. · Helpful wild beasts. · view the constellation · filed as B431.2
Motif
Filed across the traditions
- English Wells 66 (Ywain and Gawain), 118f. (Octavian). – *Hibbard 271 n. 3. – Spanish Exempla: Keller. – Italian Novella: Rotunda. – Saintyves Saints Successeurs 252. – French Canadian: Sister Marie Ursule
- Missouri French Carrière. – Jewish: Neuman. – India: *Thompson-Balys. – Africa (Gold Coast): Barker and Sinclair 131 No. 24, (Zanzibar): Bateman 82 No. 6.
- general *Type 156 (see all references for B381), *Type 590
- general *BP III 1 (Gr. No. 121)
- general *Fb "löve" II 518b
- general Dickson Valentine and Orson 107 n. 17, 118 n. 51. – Icel.: Boberg. – Irish myth: Cross
Within the index
Filed under Helpful wild beasts – felidae.
Filed beside it
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Carried in tale types
- The Faithless Mother (previously The Prince and the Arm Bands) · ATU 590 144 recorded variants
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