Owl saves man from drowning: flaps wings to call attention to direction of land

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Owl saves man from drowning: flaps wings to call attention to direction of land.

Animals. · Friendly animals. · Services of helpful animals. · Animals save person's life. · view the constellation · filed as B527.3

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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.

HawaiiBeckwith Myth 125.

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Filed under Animal saves man from death by drowning.

Filed beside it

Fish promises to spare man in coming flood. (Cf. B375.1.)Helpful animal stops leak in Noah's Ark

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