Animal overcomes man's adversary

Motif

Animal overcomes man's adversary.

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

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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.

India*Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

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

8 finer motifs beneath it

Animals overcome man's adversary by force Animals overcome man's adversary by strategy Helpful snake protects man from attack Supernatural bird prevents mother from killing babe Broom, transformed into porcupine, drives away would-be ravisher Grateful hare raises animal army for hero Faithful dog kills would-be murderer of sleeping master Chicken picks out one of attacker's eyes

Filed beside it

Animal warns of fatal danger Animal saves man from death sentence Animal saves man from pursuer 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

Travels with

Animal kills ogre. (Cf. B524.)

wander