Hero ransoms maltreated picture of a saint. As reward he gets help from the grateful saint — Mythoi

Motif

Hero ransoms maltreated picture of a saint. As reward he gets help from the grateful saint.

Chance and fate. · Helpers. · Human helpers. · view the constellation · filed as N848.1

Filed across the traditions

Lithuanian Balys Index No. 506C*.

Within the index

Filed under Saint (pious man) as helper.

Filed beside it

Holy man as helper A wise man (saint, brahmin) recognizes that a man unwittingly carries a venomous serpent in his proviant sack and warns him

Carried in tale types

The Grateful Dead · ATU 505 8 recorded variants

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