μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Helpful fish. (Cf. B375.1. and references.)

Animals. · Friendly animals. · Kinds of helpful animals. · Helpful fish. · view the constellation · filed as B470

Filed across the traditions
  • Missouri-French Carrière. – Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "animaux", Hartland Science 174
  • Arabian Burton S V 326
  • Hindu Keith 99
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Indonesian De Vries Volksverhalen uit Oost Indië I No. 72 (also in some versions of No. 35). – Polynesian (Celebes): Dixon *72 n. 56
  • Africa (Angola) Chatelain 65 No. 3.
  • general *Fb "ring" III 61a, "fisk" I 296. – Italian Novella: Rotunda
  • general Indonesian, Japanese, N. Pacific Coast American Indian (Micmac): Dixon *157 n. 6
Within the index
8 finer motifs beneath it
Small fish as helper Helpful shark Helpful whale Helpful dolphin Helpful salmon Helpful pike Helpful eel Helpful octopus
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Fish returned to water: grateful Magic song received from fish. (Cf. B470.) Fish rescues ship. (Cf. B470.)
Carried in tale types

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