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

Motif

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

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

Scholars’ trail — 8references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

Missouri-FrenchCarrière. – Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "animaux", Hartland Science 174
ArabianBurton S V 326
HinduKeith 99
India*Thompson-Balys
IndonesianDe 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

Fish returned to water: grateful Magic song received from fish. (Cf. B470.)Fish rescues ship. (Cf. B470.)

Carried in tale types

The Clever Horse (previously Ferdinand the True and Ferdinand the False) · ATU 531216 recorded variants

wander