Spider-web over hole saves fugitive. (Cf. A2221.5.)
Animals. · Friendly animals. · Services of helpful animals. · Animals save person's life. · view the constellation · filed as B523.1
Motif
Filed across the traditions
- Lappish Qvigstad Lappiske Eventyr I No. 32, II No. 68. – India: Thompson-Balys
- Japanese Ikeda
- Africa (Fang) Trilles 139.
- general Type 967*
- general *Dh II 66f. – *Wesselski Theorie 42. – Jewish: Neuman, Bin Gorion
- general Born Judas 2d ed. III 115ff., Grünbaum Neue Beiträge zur Semitischen Sagenkunde 195
Within the index
Filed under Animal saves man from pursuer.
Filed beside it
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Carried in tale types
- Flight to Egypt · ATU 750E 4 recorded variants
- The Man Saved by a Spider Web · ATU 967 1 recorded variant
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