Dogs rescue fleeing master from tree refuge

Motif

Dogs rescue fleeing master from tree refuge.

Animals. · Friendly animals. · Services of helpful animals. · Animals save person's life. · view the constellation · filed as B524.1.2

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

general *Parsons Zs. f. Ethnologie LIV 1–29, MAFLS XVII 271 No. 82. – See also most of African references in B421.

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Filed under Animals overcome man's adversary by force.

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Dogs break bonds and kill master's attacker

Filed beside it

Dogs kill attacking cannibal (dragon)Cat kills attacking rat Wolf defends master's child against serpent Helpful buffaloes tramp hero's enemies to death Helpful bird kills snake attacking master's wife and child Horse kills master's attacking enemies Shut in with elephants, blackbird orders ants to burrow themselves into the elephants' brains Grateful hawk attacks hero's enemies Helpful centipede kills ogre Hero contests with demons, using fighting animals: cock, goat, bull, horse, wild bull, peacock Hero saved from ravaging snake by crab companion. [Inadvertant duplication of B549.5.]

Carried in tale types

The Cannibal Sister · ATU 315A2 recorded variants

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