Animals guard treasure.
Animals. · Friendly animals. · Services of helpful animals. · Animals serve men. · view the constellation · filed as B576.2
Motif
Filed across the traditions
- Swiss Jegerlehner Oberwallis 294 No. 9, 325 No. 4. – *Norlind Skattsägner 53
- Danish Kristensen Da. Sagn III (1895) 455ff.
- Chinese Graham (tiger).
- general *Fb "höne" I 750b, "hund", I 675 b (hen, dog) Breton: Sébillot Incidents s. v. "animaux"
- general *Winter Deutsche Schatzsagen 54, 61
- general (1931) 311ff. – England-U.S.: *Baughman (dog, cat, sow, goat, snake, bird, crow, raven, cock, drake, swan and night-bird). India: *Thompson-Balys
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