Helpful worm — Mythoi

Motif

Helpful worm.

Animals. · Friendly animals. · Kinds of helpful animals. · Other helpful animals. · view the constellation · filed as B491.4

Filed across the traditions

Jewish Neuman.
general Chinese, Persian: Coyajee JPASB XXIV 197f.

Within the index

Filed under Helpful reptile.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Helpful centipede Helpful angleworm

Filed beside it

Helpful serpent Helpful lizard Helpful crocodile Helpful turtle (tortoise)

Carried in tale types

The Lion and the Worm · ATU 75A 1 recorded variant

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