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Motif-Index of Folk-Literature
B301.6.1. Faithful cattle shed horns in grief for death of man. Irish myth: Cross.
B301.6.2. Faithful cow refuses to move for grief at master's death. Irish myth: Cross.
B301.6.3. Faithful cows lose milk at king's death. Irish myth: Cross.
B301.7. Faithful lapdog dies when mistress dies. Irish myth: Cross; India: Thompson-Balys.
F1041.1. Death from broken heart.
B301.7.1. Faithful dog helps open mistress' grave and dies on it. India: Thompson-Balys.
F1041.1. Death from broken heart.
B301.8. Faithful lion follows man who saved him. Spanish Exempla: Keller; Icel.: Boberg.
B310. Acquisition of helpful animal. *Hartland Perseus III 191ff.
D810—D859. Acquisition of magic objects. N2.4. Helpful animals lost in wager.
B311. Congenital helpful animal. Born at same time as master and (usually) by same magic means. — *Hartland Perseus III 191ff.; *Types 300, 303; *BP I 534ff.; Köhler-Bolte I 179. — Irish myth: Cross, MacCulloch Celtic 83, Welsh ibid. 95; India: *Thompson-Balys; Africa (Zulu): Callaway 221.
B142.1. King of fishes prophesies hero's birth. B375.1. Fish returned to water: grateful. B631.1. Animal mother of man helps him. D857. Magic object born with hero. E765.2. Life bound up with that of animal. M369.8. Prophecies about fate of five boys born at the same time. P311.4. Friends born at same moment. T589.3. Birth trees. Spring forth as hero is born, act as life tokens, etc. T589.7.1. Simultaneous birth of animals and child. Z71.5.7. King with seven wives and seven mares: the seven wives pregnant for seven years, the seven mares for seven years in foal.
B311.1. Helpful animal foster brother. Hero reared by animal's parents. — Africa (Akan-Ashanti): Rattray Akan-Ashanti Folk Tales 206 No. 53, (Kassonke): Monteil Contes Soudanais 126ff.
B312. Helpful animals obtained by purchase or gift.
B312.1. Helpful animals a gift. Germa: Grimm No. 60, 126; Irish myth: Cross; Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 40 No. 300; Icel.: Boberg, Þiðriks saga I 314—18; India: Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Ikeda.
B312.2. Helpful animals obtained by exchange. *Type 300; *Hartland Perseus III 195; De Gubernatis Zool. Myth. III 36 n. — N. A. Indian: Thompson CColl II 329ff.
D851. Magic object acquired by exchange.
B312.3. Helpful animal(s) bequeathed to hero. Italian Novella: Rotunda; India: Thompson-Balys; Africa (Hausa): Best Black Folk Tales 71ff., Tremearne Hausa Superstitions and Customs 374ff. No. 79; Madagascar: (Marofotsy) Renel Contes de Madagascar I 65ff. No. 9.
N411.1.1. Cat as sole inheritance.
B312.4. Helpful animal purchased. India: Thompson-Balys; Africa (Swahili): Steere Swahili Tales 13ff., Meinhof Afrikanische Märchen 9ff. No. 1, Bateman Zanzibar Tales 99ff. No. 7.
