Man carried by bird.
Animals. · Friendly animals. · Services of helpful animals. · Animals carry men. · view the constellation · filed as B552
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
- Middle Eastern The Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments , Chapter 20
- Middle Eastern The Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments , Chapter 21
- Reference The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged) , Chapter LII LII. Killing the Divine Animal
- Greco-Roman The Metamorphoses of Ovid , Book 14
- Literary Crystallization Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books , Book 5
Filed across the traditions
- Jewish Neuman*, Bin Gorion Born Judas 2d ed. I 228
- Breton Sébillot Incidents s. v. "nid"
- Irish myth Cross, Saints' legend (Irish): Plummer cxlvi. – Missouri-French: Carrière. – German New Guinea: Dixon 141f. India: *Thompson-Balys
- Japanese Ikeda
- Chinese Eberhard FFC CXX 38f.
- Africa Stanley 83, (Boloki): Weeks 202f., (Upoto): Einstein 138, (Pangwe): Tessman 370, (Fang): ibid. 160.
- general See all references in B542.1. and B542.1.1. Chauvin V 230 No. 130, VII 12
- general *Reinhard PMLA XXXVIII 433 nn. 24, 26. – Greek: Frazer Apollodorus II 37 n. 4 (Ganymede) → on our shelf: The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK III, ch. XII
Within the index
Filed under Animals carry men.
3 finer motifs beneath it
Filed beside it
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Carried in tale types
- The Flight on the Grateful Eagle (previously The Marvelous Eagle Gives the Hero a Box) · ATU 537 2 recorded variants
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