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Motif-Index of Folk-Literature
B521.3. Animals warn against attack. Icel.: Boberg; Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Africa (Zulu): Callaway 87.
B521.3.1. Dogs warn against witch. Jamaica: *Beckwith MAFLS XVII 270 No. 82; Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 452.
G250. Recognition of witches.
B521.3.2. Cackling geese spread alarm. *Frazer Fasti II 175 n. 5.
B576.1. Animal as guard of person or house.
B521.3.3. Flea's bite alarms king. Robber tells flea of plan to rob king. During the robbery the flea bites and awakens the king. — *Chauvin II 197 No. 29.
B521.3.3.1. Prince awakened by fly on his nose in time to save himself from enemy. India: Thompson-Balys.
B521.3.4. Dog warns of pursuit. Irish myth: Cross; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 536.
B521.3.5. Owl warns other birds from limed net. India: Thompson-Balys.
B521.4. Animals warn wife of husband's danger. Africa (Ekoi): Talbot 252.
B521.5. Owl saves man from plunging over cliff. Flaps wings and arrests man's attention. — Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 124.
B521.6. Birds warn of enemy's approach. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 390.
B522. Animal saves man from death sentence. India: Thompson-Balys; Jewish: Neuman.
J1130. Cleverness in law court.
B522.1. Serpent shows condemned man how to save prince's life. Bites the prince and then shows the man the proper remedy (cf. B512). By thus ingratiating himself the man is freed from false accusation. — *Type 160; Chauvin II 106 No. 71. — Spanish Exempla: Keller; Clouston Tales I 230; Bødker Exempler 304 No. 75; India: *Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Ikeda. — Africa (Vai): Ellis 230 No. 39.
W154.8. Grateful animals; ungrateful man.
B522.2. Kite steals jewels and thus saves condemned man. Innocent man in possession of stolen jewels, is about to be apprehended. Kite carries off the jewels and saves him. — *Penzer IV 192 n. 1; India: *Thompson-Balys.
N352. Bird carries off ring which lover has taken from sleeping mistress' finger. He searches for the ring and becomes separated from her.
B522.3. Woman slandered as adulteress is thrown into lion pit. Lions do not harm her. — Italian Novella: Rotunda.
B443. Helpful lion. D1714. Magic power of chaste woman. F980. Extraordinary occurrences concerning animals. H413. Special powers of chaste woman. K2110. Slanders.
B522.4. Eagle carries off condemned child. Irish myth: Cross.
B552. Man carried by bird. R122. Miraculous rescue. R131. Exposed or abandoned child rescued.
B522.4.1. Circling cranes carry away girl. Eskimo (Bering Strait): Nelson RBAE XVIII 480.
