Animal saves man from death by drowning

Motif

Animal saves man from death by drowning.

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

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Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

Saints' legend (Irish)Plummer cxlvi (sea birds)
Irish mythCross
Buddhist mythMalalasekera II 747.

Within the index

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

3 finer motifs beneath it

Fish promises to spare man in coming flood. (Cf. B375.1.)Helpful animal stops leak in Noah's Ark Owl saves man from drowning: flaps wings to call attention to direction of land

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 burning Animal saves person's life – miscellaneous

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