Faithful old dog to be killed — Mythoi

Motif

Faithful old dog to be killed.

Animals. · Miscellaneous animal motifs. · Miscellaneous animal motifs. · view the constellation · filed as B842

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general *Type 101.

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Filed under Miscellaneous animal motifs.

1 finer motif beneath it

Faithful old horse to be abandoned

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 Animals try in vain to repair sleigh. They get unsatisfactory materials Long-lived animals 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

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