Guardian animals evaded — Mythoi

Motif

Guardian animals evaded.

Animals. · Friendly animals. · Services of helpful animals. · Animals serve men. · view the constellation · filed as B576.1.1

Attested across traditions

North American Indigenous Tales of the North American Indians , Tale 39 receipt

Filed across the traditions

N. Am. Indian Thompson Tales 367 n. 113a.

Within the index

Filed under Animal as guard of person or house.

Filed beside it

Robbers frightened by grateful dog

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

Sun father-in-law Animal bribed with food. (Sop to Cerberus.) Animal as guard of person or house Transformation: man to feather Protean beggar: Person assumes successive forms in order to beg Transformation combat. Fight between contestants who strive to outdo each other in successive transformations Transformation to reach difficult place Transformation to escape difficult situation Transformation to receive food Burning magically evaded. (Cf. D1656.) Resuscitation by arrangement of members. Parts of a dismembered corpse are brought together and resuscitation follows. (Sometimes combined with other methods.) Resuscitated eaten animal. (Cf. E171.) An animal is eaten. When his bones are reassembled he revives

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