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India: *Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Mitford 253; Korean: Zong in-Sob 28 No. 12; Tonga: Gifford 201.

B184. Magic cat. B211.8. Speaking cat. K722. Giant tricked into becoming mouse. Cat eats him up.

B430. Helpful wild beasts. India: Thompson-Balys.

B431. Helpful wild beasts — felidae.

B431.1. Helpful leopard. Africa (Akan-Ashanti): Rattray Akan-Ashanti Folk Tales 206 No. 53.

B431.2. Helpful lion. (Cf. B549.1.) — *Type 156 (see all references for B381), *Type 590; *BP III 1 (Gr. No. 121); *Fb "love" II 518b; Dickson Valentine and Orson 107 n. 17, 118 n. 51. — Icel.: Boberg. — Irish myth: Cross; English: Wells 66 (Ywain and Gawain), 118f. (Octavian). — *Hibbard 271 n. 3. — Spanish Exempla: Keller. — Italian Novella: Rotunda. — Saintyves Saints Successeurs 252. — French Canadian: Sister Marie Ursule; Missouri French: Carrière. — Jewish: Neuman. — India: *Thompson-Balys. — Africa (Gold Coast): Barker and Sinclair 131 No. 24, (Zanzibar): Bateman 82 No. 6.

B431.3. Helpful tiger. India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Werner 263; Korean: Zong in-Sob 82, No. 45.

B431.4. Helpful panther. Fable: Phaedrus III 2; Wienert FFC LVI 70 (ET 346), 127 (ST 357).

B433. Helpful wild beasts — mustelidae.

B433.1. Helpful otter. Saints' legend (Irish): Plummer cxliv; Irish myth: Cross.

B292.7. Otters supply man with fish and burning wood daily. B548.3. Otter recovers lost book from water.

B433.2. Helpful badger. Jewish: Neuman; Japanese: Mitford 270ff.

B433.3. Helpful ichneumon. India: Thompson-Balys; Africa (Nao): Held Märchen und Sagen der afrikanischen Neger 132ff.

B433.4. Helpful mongoose. Chauvin II 100 No. 59; Bødker Exempler 299 No. 64; India: *Thompson-Balys.

B311.2.1. Woman slays faithful mongoose which has saved her child.

B435. Helpful wild beasts — canidae and other carnivora.

B435.1. Helpful fox. *Types 506, 545, 550; *BP I 331, 503, III 487, 490ff.; Hdwb. d. Abergl. IIl 179. — Sébillot RTP III 394; *Fb "höj" I 741, "ræv" III 113b. — Irish myth: Cross; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "animaux". — Missouri French: Carrière; Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. — Chinese: Werner 380f., Krappe CFQ III (1944) 126, Eberhard FFC CXX 29 No. 17. — Japanese: Mitford 261ff. — N. A. Indian: Thompson Tales 342 n. 233. — Africa (Tonga): Gifford 123.

B144. Prophetic fox. B253.3. Fox fasts as penance. B259.5. Fly, wren, fox live with cleric. B291.3.1. Fox as messenger. B294. Fox as divider of dying man's gifts. B514.1. Fox as healer. B541.2. Fox rescues man from sea. B651.1. Marriage to fox in human form.

B435.2. Helpful jackal. BP I 331; India: *Thompson-Balys.

B563.4.1. Jackal leads lost men out of wilderness.

B435.3. Helpful wolf. *Type 428; *Fb "ulv" IV 971a. — English: Wells Manual of Writings 20 (William of Palerne) (werwolf). — Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "animaux". — Irish myth: Cross. — Italian