Animals

2,684 motifs · page 14 of 14

• Dog so old his head is skinless. B841.3
• Stags live one thousand years. B841.4
• Faithful old dog to be killed. B842
• Faithful old horse to be abandoned. B842.1
• Immortal animals. B843
• Immortal serpent. B843.1
• Immortal donkey. B843.2
• Wild animals herded. B845
• Wild pigs kept by demigod as if domesticated. B845.1
• Animals chained in couples. B845.2
• Monkeys construct a bridge across the ocean. B846
• Lions placed in city to prevent entrance. B847
• Man unharmed in den of animals. (Cf. B771.2.1.) B848
• The musician in the wolf-trap: meets wolf already trapped, and saves himself by playing music. (Cf. K551.3.1.) B848.1
• Girl removes dog from lion's claws without being harmed. B848.2
• When cow calls her calf, all cattle graze. B852
• Birds perch on ears of cows. B853
• Each of grazing herd of cows eats same amount. B854
• Man and bear in the rick of hay. The bear, persecuted by wolves, runs onto the hay-rick where the man was hidden, and defends himself from the wolves with bunches of hay. B855
• Animal avenges injury. B857
• Giant animals. (Cf. B16.1, B16.4, B15.7.12) B870
• Animal extraordinarily heavy for size. B870.1
• Giant beasts. B871
• Giant domestic beasts. B871.1
• Giant cow. B871.1.1
• Giant ox. B871.1.1.1
• Gigantic ox-rib (in otherworld). B871.1.1.1.1
• Giant bull. B871.1.1.2
• Giant buffalo. B871.1.1.3
• Giant boar. B871.1.2
• Giant boar with hinder part as large as can be carried by nine men. B871.1.2.0.1
• Giant hog. B871.1.2.1
• Gigantic hog-rib (in otherworld). B871.1.2.1.1
• Giant sheep. B871.1.3
• Giant goat. B871.1.4
• Giant horse: hair from the tail is seven yards. B871.1.5
• Giant cat. B871.1.6
• Giant dog (hound). B871.1.7
• Giant wild beasts. B871.2
• Giant elephant. B871.2.1
• Giant tiger. B871.2.2
• Giant panther. B871.2.3
• Giant hippopotamus. B871.2.4
• Giant lion. B871.2.5
• Giant walrus. B871.2.6
• Giant mice. B871.2.7
• Giant hare. B871.2.8
• Giant armadillo. B871.2.9
• Giant eagle. B872.1
• Giant gull. B872.2
• Giant falcon. B872.3
• Giant auk. B872.4
• Giant insects. B873
• Giant louse. B873.1
• Giant scorpion. B873.2
• Giant spider. B873.3
• Giant ant. B873.4
• Giant fish. B874
• Giant river catfish. B874.1
• Giant eel. B874.2
• Giant whale. B874.3
• Whale cast ashore – three golden teeth and five ounces in each of these teeth. B874.3.1
• Giant whale cast ashore on the night of Christ's Nativity: "fifty men were on the upper parts of its head, and (there was) the limit of vision between each two of them. Such was the amount of ground which the animal occupied. B874.3.2
• Giant salmon. B874.4
• Giant shark. B874.5
• Giant clam. B874.6
• Giant reptiles. B875
• Giant serpent. B875.1
• Giant crocodile. B875.2
• Giant turtle. B875.3
• Giant tortoise. B875.4
• Giant amphibia and other animal forms. B876
• Giant frog. B876.1
• Giant crustacean. B876.2
• Giant crab. B876.2.1
• Giant mythical animals. B877
• Giant sea monster. B877.1
• Giant water monster attacks man. B877.1.1
• Giant sea monster overpowered by saint. B877.1.2
• Gigantic animal ("reem"). B877.2
• Djun, gigantic and ferocious river animal. B877.3
• Giant flock of animals (birds.) B878
• Giant flock of birds. B878.1
• Flock of birds so numerous that it shakes trees upon which it perches. B878.1.1