Old man helper.
Chance and fate. · Helpers. · Human helpers. · view the constellation · filed as N825.2
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
- Middle EasternThe Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments, Chapter 18
- Middle EasternThe Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments, Chapter 19
- Middle EasternThe Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments, Chapter 22
Scholars’ trail — 13references
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.
- Missouri FrenchCarrière
- SpanishEspinosa II Nos. 75, 99–103, 138f.
- India*Thompson-Balys
- ChineseGraham
- JapaneseIkeda
- TuamotuStimson MS (z-G. 13/174)
- HawaiiBeckwith Myth 461
- N. Am. Indian (Seneca)Curtin-Hewitt RBAE XXXII 88 No. 4
- Africa (Kaffir)Theal 83.
- general *Types 307, 329, 480, 512*
- general *BP III 365ff., 534ff.
- general *Chauvin VI 109 No. 273 n. 1
- general Roberts 150. Irish myth: Cross
Carried in tale types
- The Princess in the Coffin (previously The Princess in the Shroud) · ATU 3072 recorded variants
- The Land and Water Ship · ATU 513B2 recorded variants