μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
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Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth Cross
  • Missouri French Carrière
  • English Wells 60 (Syre Gawene and the Carle of Carelyle). Jewish: Neuman
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Buddhist myth Malalasekera II 704 (elephant)
  • Hawaii Beckwith Myth 24 (bird), 129 (shark), 84, 349 (dog). – N. Am. Indian: *Thompson Tales 308 n. 113c. – Jamaica: Beckwith MAFLS XVII 273 No. 86
  • Africa (Hottentot) Bleek 55 No 28.
  • general Rösch FFC LXXVII 107 (Type 516)
  • general *Fb "bjørn" IV 42a, "løve" II 518
  • general Chauvin VI 6 No. 182
  • general *Loomis White Magic 63
  • general Dickson Valentine and Orson 198
Within the index

Filed under Animal as guard.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Guardian animals evaded Robbers frightened by grateful dog
Filed beside it
Animals guard treasure Animal as herdsman Animal guards master's dead body Animal as guard of shop
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Cat and dog as guards of imprisoned beauty. (Cf. B576.1.)
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Sun father-in-law Animal bribed with food. (Sop to Cerberus.) Guardian animals evaded 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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