μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Animal warns against poison.

Animals. · Friendly animals. · Services of helpful animals. · Animals save person's life. · view the constellation · filed as B521.1

Filed across the traditions
  • Fable Halm Aesop No. 120, Wienert FFC LVI 70 (ET 338), 127 (ST 353), (eagle). India: Thompson-Balys
  • Africa (Basuto) Jacottet 76 No. 12 (ox).
Within the index

Filed under Animal warns of fatal danger.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Horse advises hero not to wash in water (as his false wife told him to) or his eyes will pop out Animal warns man against drinking
Filed beside it
Animal warns against accident Animals warn against attack Animals warn wife of husband's danger Owl saves man from plunging over cliff. Flaps wings and arrests man's attention Birds warn of enemy's approach

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