Animal gives part of body as talisman for summoning its aid

Motif

Animal gives part of body as talisman for summoning its aid.

Animals. · Friendly animals. · Services of helpful animals. · Magic power from animals. · view the constellation · filed as B501

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Scholars’ trail — 9references

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.

French CanadianBarbeau JAFL XXIX 15
Missouri-FrenchCarrière
Italian NovellaRotunda
India*Thompson-Balys. – Persian: Carnoy 290, 331. – Africa (Kaffir): Theal 85, (Swahili): Steere 199
N. Am. Indian (Pawnee)Dorsey MAFLS VIII 102.
general *Types 531, 552, 553
general BP III 18ff., 424ff.
general Malone PMLA XLIII 407
general *Fb "fjer" I 301, "hår" I 771b. Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v "talisman"

Within the index

Filed under Magic power from animals.

4 finer motifs beneath it

Buffalo give hero horns for summoning them Kite teaches rhyme by which he may be summoned for help Animal gives jewel for summoning him when in need of help Birds give hero feather to burn if he is in difficulty

Filed beside it

Magic object received from animal

Carried in tale types

The Clever Horse (previously Ferdinand the True and Ferdinand the False) · ATU 531216 recorded variants
The Girls Who Married Animals · ATU 5524 recorded variants

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