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B256.2. St. Anthony's pigs. Pigs dedicated to saint held sacred. — Italian Novella: Rotunda.
B256.3. Deer makes its horns available as a bookholder to a saint. *Loomis White Magic 61.
B256.3.1. Deer furnish bier and bear saint's corpse to church. Irish myth: Cross.
B256.4. Domesticated wolves. *Loomis White Magic 60.
B256.4.1. Wolves guard saint's cattle like watchdogs when he is absent. *Loomis White Magic 59.
B256.5. Obedience of the feathered creatures to the commands of saint. *Loomis White Magic 67f.
B256.5.1. Birds protect saint and serve him. *Loomis White Magic 68.
B450. Helpful birds.
B256.6. Boar serves saint. (Cf. B183.) — Irish myth: Cross.
B256.6.1. Boar guards holy man's swine. Irish myth: Cross.
B576. Animal as guard.
B256.6.2. Boar makes music for holy man. Irish myth: Cross.
B256.6.3. Boar acts as physician for holy man: licks his wounded feet. Irish myth: Cross.
B251.2.3. Wolves lick saint's shoes.
B256.7. Tiger sweeps temple for saint. India: Thompson-Balys.
B256.8. Saint's prayer causes wolf to bring back child. Saintyves: Saints Successeurs 129.
B256.9. Stags plow for saint. Irish myth: Cross.
B256.10. Fly, wren, fox live with cleric. Irish myth: Cross.
B256.11. Wolf returns sheep stolen from saint. Irish myth: Cross.
B442. Helpful wolf. K423.0.1. Stolen animal returns to owner.
B256.12. Whale raises back so that voyaging clerics can land to celebrate Easter. Irish myth: Cross.
B472. Helpful whale. V75. Easter. V462.10. Asetic cleric lives for seven years on whale's back.
B257. Animal funeral. *Type 2021; *BP II 146 (Gr. No. 80).
Z32. The funeral procession of the hen.
B259. Miscellaneous religious animals.
B189.1.1. Wethers leap from well: payment for saint's baptism.
B259.1. Ass insists upon payment of tithes. When stolen by thieves, the ass refuses to eat for three days because the thieves' provender has not been tithed. — Hebrew: Gaster Exempla 228 No. 235; Jewish: Neuman.
B259.2. Sabbath-keeping cow. Refuses to work on Sabbath. — Jewish: Bin Gorion Born Judas² II 92, *342; Jewish: Neuman.
B259.3. Hog will not accept food from excommunicated men. Alphabet No. 312.
