Animals as carpenter (builder) — Mythoi

Motif

Animals as carpenter (builder).

Animals. · Friendly animals. · Services of helpful animals. · Animals serve men. · view the constellation · filed as B572

Filed across the traditions

Buddhist myth Malalasekera I 188, II 819.

Within the index

Filed under Animals serve men.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Animals build palace (house) for man Birds build canoe for master

Filed beside it

Animals perform tasks for man Animals as domestic servants Animal as constant attendant of man Animal as guard Dogs track down law-breakers Animals serve man otherwise

ask the rhapsode about this motif · search the shelf for “carpenter” · wander