Help from little man

Motif

Help from little man.

Chance and fate. · Helpers. · Human helpers. · view the constellation · filed as N821

Scholars’ trail — 2references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

general *Types 513B, 570
general *BP III 267ff.

Within the index

Filed under Human helpers.

Filed beside it

Lame boy (girl) as helper Old person as helper Help from beggar. (Cf. N825.3.1.)Child as helper. (Cf. N832.)Wise woman as helper Girl as helper Boy as helper. (Cf. N827)Wealthy (powerful) man as helper King as helper Queen as helper Hero (culture hero) as helper Shepherd as helper Cook as helper Hermit as helper Dervish as helper Magician as helper

Carried in tale types

The Three Magic Objects and the Wonderful Fruits · ATU 56612 recorded variants

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