Animals help man perform task

Motif

Animals help man perform task.

Tests. · Tests of prowess: tasks. · Assignment and performance of tasks. · Performance of tasks. · Help in performing tasks. · view the constellation · filed as H982

Cited in the index

general *Types 300, 329, 531, 550, 552, 554, 665.

Within the index

Filed under Help in performing tasks.

1 finer motif beneath it

Pigeons cover the sun's rays with their outstretched wings and lengthen night to six months so that hero's task can be completed in one night

Filed beside it

Task performed with help of old person Tasks accomplished with help of grateful dead Tasks performed by helpful forest spirits Task performed with help of supernatural wife Tasks performed by deity Task performed by mysterious stranger Tasks performed with help of brother Task performed with help of angel. (Cf. N810.) Tasks performed with help of saint Task performed with help of druid Help in performance of tasks: invisible hands Task performed with aid of magic object

Carried in tale types

The Clever Horse (previously Ferdinand the True and Ferdinand the False) · ATU 531 432 recorded variants
Dungbeetle · ATU 559 4 recorded variants
Hiding from the Princess (previously Hiding from the Devil) · ATU 329 1 recorded variant
The Grateful Animals · ATU 554 1 recorded variant

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