μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Animals perform tasks for man.

Animals. · Friendly animals. · Services of helpful animals. · Animals serve men. · view the constellation · filed as B571

Filed across the traditions
  • Chinese Eberhard FFC CXX 28, 80 No. 46. – Carib: Alexander Lat. Am. 264
  • Quiché ibid. 174
  • Italian Novella Rotunda
  • Missouri-French Carrière.
  • general *Type 554
  • general BP I 134, II *21ff.
  • general Köhler-Bolte I 397
  • general *Fb "fugl" I 381a
  • general Köhler Zs. f. Vksk. VI 71 (to Gonzenbach No. 32). – Arabian: Burton S VI 9–11. – Indonesian, Malay: Dixon 216, 217, *218 n. 23. – India: *Thompson-Balys
  • general Chincha: ibid. 231
Within the index

Filed under Animals serve men.

4 finer motifs beneath it
Animals help man overcome monster with external soul. Discover where he keeps his soul Animal who arrives late performs tasks for man. (Cf. L147.1.) Animals fight together with their master Bear husks millet for man
Filed beside it
Animals as carpenter (builder) Animals as domestic servants Animal as constant attendant of man Animal as guard Dogs track down law-breakers Animals serve man otherwise
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Helpful animal performs spinning task. (Cf. B571.) Task: embroidering blanket in one day. (Help from animals.) (Cf. B571.)
Carried in tale types

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