Animals help hero on quest — Mythoi

Motif

Animals help hero on quest.

Tests. · Tests of prowess: quests. · Attendant circumstances of quests. · Accomplishment of quests. · view the constellation · filed as H1233.6

Filed across the traditions

Welsh MacCulloch Celtic 187
Missouri French Carrière
India Thompson-Balys
Japanese Ikeda.
general *Type 550
general Malone PMLA XLIII 444

Within the index

Filed under Helpers on quest.

3 finer motifs beneath it

Horse helper on quest Bird helper (adviser) on quest Porpoise as helper on quest

Filed beside it

Old person as helper on quest Relation as helper on quest Holy man as helper on quest Supernatural creature as helper on quest Deity as helper on quest

Carried in tale types

Bird, Horse and Princess (previously Search for the Golden Bird) · ATU 550 20 recorded variants

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