B. Animals
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B381.1. Wolf fetches a man to remove thorn from his children's paws. Does not attack the man's livestock. — Lithuanian: Balys Index No. *156A.
B381.2. Thorn removed from monkey's tail. India: Thompson-Balys.
B382. Animal grateful for removal of bone lodged in its throat. India: Thompson-Balys; S. A. Indian (Cashinawa): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 685.
W154.3. Crane pulls bone from wolf's throat: wolf refuses payment.
B383. Man called by animal for help to his cubs in danger. *Loomis White Magic 59.
B384. Saint cures the blind young ones of a hyena or wolf by the sign of the cross and the application of his saliva. (Cf. D1500.1.8.1.) The animal mother is grateful. — *Loomis White Magic 59 f.
B385. Serpent relieved from sand blown in eyes: grateful. India: Thompson-Balys.
B386. Tigress grateful for opening of abscess. India: Thompson-Balys.
B387. Tiger grateful for woman assisting tigress as midwife. Chinese: Graham, Eberhard FFC CXX 29.
B388. Cobra grateful for cure of ulcer. India: Thompson-Balys.
N647. Thorn accidentally removed from cobra's throat by woman's finger. Grateful cobra.
B390. Animals grateful for other kind acts.
B11.6.1. Dragon helps hero out of gratitude.
B391. Animal grateful for food. *Types 300, 531, 550, 554; Warnke Quellen des Esope der Marie de France 221ff.; *BP II 21f., 463; Halm Aesop No. 173; Wienert FFC LVI 70 (ET 347), 127 (ST 358); Ward III 208; Oesterley Gesta Romanorum No. 141 (Cf. B335.1.) — Lithuanian: Balys Legends No. 387. — Danish: Fb "kalv"; Missouri-French: Carrière — India: *Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Mitford 185f., 270, Anesaki 313, Ikeda; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 29. — Africa (Benga): Nassau No. 33.
B325.1. Animal bribed with food. Q45. Hospitality rewarded.
B391.1. Child feeds snake from its milk-bottle. *Type 285; BP II 459, cf. II 463. — India: Thompson-Balys.
B765.6. Snake eats milk and bread with child.
B391.1.1. Cobra grateful to prince for milk. India: Thompson-Balys.
B391.1.2. Snake grateful because man feeds her young snakes milk. India: Thompson-Balys.
B391.1.3. Snake grateful for pouring milk into its hole. India: Thompson-Balys.
B391.2. Child shares food with toad. German: Grimm No. 105.
B391.3. Hero kills horse to feed young ravens. German: Grimm No. 17.
B391.4. Animals given water to drink: grateful. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 150.
B392. Hero divides spoil for animals. *Type 300; Fb "dele" IV 96b; *BP II 22 n. 1. — Lithuanian: Balys Index No. *554A.; Italian Novella: Rotunda. — Missouri-French: Carrière; Africa (Angola): Chatelain 70 No. 3.
