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Motif

Faithful servant.

Society. · Other social relationships. · Master and servant. · view the constellation · filed as P361

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Filed across the traditions
  • Icelandic *Boberg
  • Spanish Exempla Keller
  • Jewish *Neuman
  • India Thompson-Balys
  • Korean Zong in-Sob 154ff. No. 68.
  • general *Types 516
  • general *BP I 46
  • general **Rösch FFC LXXVII 95f.
  • general **Hdwb. d. Märchens I 389 (and cross references there given)
Within the index

Filed under Master and servant.

9 finer motifs beneath it
Faithful servant dies for his master. Puts on his master's clothes so as to be slain in his place. (Cf. P316.) Faithful servant remains at home and fights for exiled hero Faithful servant sacrifices sons to save life of king. Sons resuscitated and servant enriched Faithful nurse tries to save tyrant's daughter by exposing her own in her place Abandoned maiden helped by her faithful nurse Faithful servant dies avenging master's death Captain will not betray king's secret. He refuses to betray where recruits are being raised Faithful servant undergoes torture for sake of his master Crow lets itself be caught so as to save king of crows
Filed beside it
Faithful servant entrusted with care and education of crown prince Faithless servant Master demands that servant tell him of his faults as well as of his good qualities
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Hero rescued by servant. (Cf. P361, R53.4.)
Carried in tale types

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