Helpful worm — Mythoi

Motif

Helpful worm.

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

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

JewishNeuman.
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 75A1 recorded variant

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