Animals save person's life. (Cf. B540.) — Mythoi

Motif

Animals save person's life. (Cf. B540.)

Animals. · Friendly animals. · Services of helpful animals. · Animals save person's life. · view the constellation · filed as B520

Filed across the traditions

Greek Frazer Apollodorus I 372 n. 1 (horse). – Icel.: *Boberg → on our shelf: The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK III, ch. VI
Missouri-French Carrière
Buddhist myth Malalasekera II 1260
Chinese Eberhard FFC CXX 25, 28, 31, 84
Africa (Duala) Lederbogen 76.
general Panchatantra III 8 (tr. Ryder) 334

Within the index

8 finer motifs beneath it

Animal warns of fatal danger Animal saves man from death sentence Animal saves man from pursuer Animal overcomes man's adversary Animal spares man he is about to devour Animal saves man from death by burning Animal saves man from death by drowning Animal saves person's life – miscellaneous

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Animal rescuer or retriever. Rescue person or retrieve lost object Fugitives aided by helpful animal. (Cf. B520.)

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

Bird language learned by having ears magically cleansed Helpful horse Tabu: revealing secrets of god Tabu: man looking at nude goddess Transformation: man to woman Man looks at copulating snakes: transformed to woman. (Cf. D12.) Sphinx propounds riddle on pain of death Riddle of the Sphinx: what is it that goes on four legs in the morning, on two at midday, and on three in the evening. (Man, who crawls as a child, walks in middle life, and walks with a stick in old age.) Zeus smites Capaneus while he is climbing a ladder Punishment for splitting head and eating man's brains Punishment: banishment (exile) Blinding as punishment

Carried in tale types

The Faithless Mother (previously The Prince and the Arm Bands) · ATU 590 144 recorded variants

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