μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Fish recovers ring from sea.

Animals. · Friendly animals. · Services of helpful animals. · Animal rescuer or retriever. · view the constellation · filed as B548.2.1

Filed across the traditions
  • Italian Novella Rotunda
  • Greek Fox 101
  • Spanish Boggs FFC XC 69 No. 515
  • Jewish Neuman
  • India *Thompson-Balys. Cf. L412.1. Woman casts ring into sea.
  • general *Type 554
  • general *BP II 19ff.
  • general *Fb "gjedde" I 440a, "ring" III 61a
  • general Wünsche (A.) Die Sage vom Ring des Polykrates in der Weltliteratur (Beilage zur Allgemeinen Zeitung, 1893, Nos. 179, 180, 185, 188)
  • general Chauvin V 17
  • general Köhler-Bolte II 209
  • general Clouston Tales I 398ff.
  • general Saintyves Essais de folklore biblique 402. Irish myth: Cross
Within the index

Filed under Fish brings lost object from bottom of sea.

Filed beside it
Fish recovers key from sea Fish recovers lost fish-hook from sea Fish recovers pen from sea Fish recovers lost urn from sea
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Woman casts ring into sea boasting that it is as impossible for her to become poor as for the ring to be found. Ring is found in fish: she becomes poor

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