Helpful fox.
Animals. · Friendly animals. · Kinds of helpful animals. · Helpful beasts. · Helpful wild beasts. · view the constellation · filed as B435.1
Motif
Filed across the traditions
- Breton Sébillot Incidents s.v. "animaux". – Missouri French: Carrière, Jewish: Neuman
- India Thompson-Balys. – Chinese: Werner 380f., Krappe CFQ III (1944) 126, Eberhard FFC CXX 29 No. 17. – Japanese: Mitford 261ff. – N. Am. Indian: Thompson Tales 342 n. 233. – Africa (Tonga): Gifford 123. → on our shelf: Myths & Legends of China, Chapter XV
- general *Types 506, 545, 550
- general *BP I 331, 503, III 487, 490ff.
- general Hdwb. d. Abergl. III 179. Sébillot RTP III 394
- general *Fb "höj" I 741, "ræv" III 113b. – Irish myth: Cross
Within the index
Filed under Helpful wild beasts – canidae and other carnivora.
Filed beside it
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Carried in tale types
- Bird, Horse and Princess (previously Search for the Golden Bird) · ATU 550 80 recorded variants
- Puss in Boots · ATU 545B 12 recorded variants
- The Cat Castle · ATU 545A 1 recorded variant
- Demi-cock · ATU 715 1 recorded variant
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