Animals try in vain to repair sleigh. They get unsatisfactory materials — Mythoi

Motif

Animals try in vain to repair sleigh. They get unsatisfactory materials.

Animals. · Miscellaneous animal motifs. · Miscellaneous animal motifs. · view the constellation · filed as B831

Cited in the index

general Type 158.

Within the index

Filed under Miscellaneous animal motifs.

Filed beside it

Elephants in folktales Horses in tales and legends. (Cf. B41.1, B41.2, B103, B133, B149.1, B151, B181, B811.1.) Sacred animals Long-lived animals Faithful old dog to be killed Immortal animals Wild animals herded Monkeys construct a bridge across the ocean Lions placed in city to prevent entrance Man unharmed in den of animals. (Cf. B771.2.1.) When cow calls her calf, all cattle graze Birds perch on ears of cows Each of grazing herd of cows eats same amount Man and bear in the rick of hay. The bear, persecuted by wolves, runs onto the hay-rick where the man was hidden, and defends himself from the wolves with bunches of hay Animal avenges injury

Carried in tale types

The Wild Animals on the Sleigh · ATU 158 1 recorded variant

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