μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Animal saves man from death by burning.

Animals. · Friendly animals. · Services of helpful animals. · Animals save person's life. · view the constellation · filed as B526

Within the index

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

2 finer motifs beneath it
Helpful animals quench execution fire. Master is to be burned at stake Helpful mare cools boiling bath for master. Hero is made to bathe in boiling mare's milk. His mare blows on the milk and cools it
Filed beside it
Animal warns of fatal danger 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 drowning Animal saves person's life – miscellaneous

ask the rhapsode about this motif · search the shelf for “burning” · wander