Animal husband provides characteristic animal food — Mythoi

Motif

Animal husband provides characteristic animal food.

Animals. · Marriage of person to animal. · Marriage of person to animal. · view the constellation · filed as B600.2

Filed across the traditions

Eskimo (Mackenzie Area) Jenness 52, (Greenland): Thalbitzer 6.

Within the index

Filed under Marriage of person to animal. Extremely common. Only a few references are given.

Filed beside it

Various animals tried out as wives. Only one accepted Marriage of person to beast. (Cf. B641, B651) Marriage to bird. (Cf. B644.) Marriage to fish (whale). (Cf. B612.) Marriage to reptile. (Cf. B613, B622.1, B642, B652.) Marriage to dragon

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