Quest for dangerous animals — Mythoi

Motif

Quest for dangerous animals.

Tests. · Tests of prowess: quests. · Nature of quests. · Quest for dangerous animals. · view the constellation · filed as H1360

Attested across traditions

North American Indigenous Tales of the North American Indians , Tale 39 receipt

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth Cross
N. Am. Indian *Thompson Tales 312 n. 126
Africa (Basuto) Jacottet 2 No. 1.

Within the index

4 finer motifs beneath it

Quest for lion's milk Quest for devastating animals Quest for wonderful but vicious horse Quest for demon-owned cows

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

Sun father-in-law Animal bribed with food. (Sop to Cerberus.) Animal as guard of person or house Guardian animals evaded Transformation: man to feather Protean beggar: Person assumes successive forms in order to beg Transformation combat. Fight between contestants who strive to outdo each other in successive transformations Transformation to reach difficult place Transformation to escape difficult situation Transformation to receive food Burning magically evaded. (Cf. D1656.) Resuscitation by arrangement of members. Parts of a dismembered corpse are brought together and resuscitation follows. (Sometimes combined with other methods.)

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