Animals recover lost wishing ring. Grateful cat, dog, and snake compel mouse to steal it from thief

Motif

Animals recover lost wishing ring. Grateful cat, dog, and snake compel mouse to steal it from thief.

Animals. · Friendly animals. · Services of helpful animals. · Animal rescuer or retriever. · view the constellation · filed as B548.1

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Scholars’ trail — 6references

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. – Indonesian: De Vries' list No. 186
ChineseEberhard FFC CXX 24ff. No. 13, 68.
general *Type 560
general **Aarne MSFO XXV 3–82
general *BP II 455ff.
general Dh IV 147ff. – Missouri-French: Carrière

Within the index

Filed under Animal retrieves lost object.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Martens recover lost magic ring from kite Otters recover lost magic ring from fish

Filed beside it

Fish brings lost object from bottom of sea Otter retrieves lost magic object from bottom of lake Ducks recover lost object from water Frog recovers Sacred Host from water Jewel recovered from sea by helpful parrot

Carried in tale types

The Magic Ring · ATU 56018 recorded variants

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