Helpful mouse.
Animals. · Friendly animals. · Kinds of helpful animals. · Helpful beasts. · Helpful wild beasts. · view the constellation · filed as B437.2
Motif
Filed across the traditions
- Italian Novella Rotunda
- Missouri-French Carrière. – Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 268. – Africa (Kaffir): Theal 85, Kidd 230 No. 2, (Basuto): Jacottet 190 No. 28.
- general *Type 75, cf. Type 560. Jewish: Neuman
- general Penzer V 79 n. 2. – India: *Thompson-Balys, Bødker Exempler 290 Nos 45, 46
Carried in tale types
- The Animal Bride (previously The Mouse [Cat, Frog, etc · ATU 402 2 recorded variants
- The Help of the Weak · ATU 75 2 recorded variants
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