μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Helpful dove. (Cf. B362.)

Animals. · Friendly animals. · Kinds of helpful animals. · Helpful birds. · view the constellation · filed as B457.1

Filed across the traditions
  • Fable Halm Aesop No. 296, Wienert FFC LVI 59 (ET 201), 127 (ST 356)
  • Breton Sébillot Incidents s.v. "talisman". – Missouri-French: Carrière, Italian Novella: Rotunda. – Jewish: Neuman
  • Irish myth Cross
  • India *Thompson-Balys.
Within the index

Filed under Helpful birds – charidriiformes.

Filed beside it
Helpful pigeon
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Animal grateful for rescue from drowning
Carried in tale types

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