Animal warns against poison

Motif

Animal warns against poison.

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

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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.

FableHalm Aesop No. 120, Wienert FFC LVI 70 (ET 338), 127 (ST 353), (eagle). India: Thompson-Balys
Africa (Basuto)Jacottet 76 No. 12 (ox).

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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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