Animal warns of fatal danger

Motif

Animal warns of fatal danger.

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

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Scholars’ trail — 4references

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.

India*Thompson-Balys
JewishNeuman
U.S.Baughman
Africa (Duala)Lederbogen Märchen 75, (Fang): Trilles 138, (Loango): Pechuël-Loesche 109.

Within the index

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

6 finer motifs beneath it

Animal warns against poison 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

Filed beside it

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

Carried in tale types

The Cannibal Sister · ATU 315A2 recorded variants

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