Kite steals jewels and thus saves condemned man. Innocent man in possession of stolen jewels, is about to be apprehended. Kite carries off the jewels and saves him

Motif

Kite steals jewels and thus saves condemned man. Innocent man in possession of stolen jewels, is about to be apprehended. Kite carries off the jewels and saves him.

Animals. · Friendly animals. · Services of helpful animals. · Animals save person's life. · view the constellation · filed as B522.2

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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.

India*Thompson-Balys.
general *Penzer IV 192 n. 1

Within the index

Filed under Animal saves man from death sentence.

Filed beside it

Serpent shows condemned man how to save prince's life. Bites the prince and then shows the man the proper remedy (cf. B512). By thus ingratiating himself the man is freed from false accusation Woman slandered as adulteress is thrown into lion pit. Lions do not harm her Eagle carries off condemned child

Carried in tale types

Grateful Animals, Ungrateful Man [W154 · ATU 1601 recorded variant

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