B. Animals
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B841.2.1. Crow lives nine generations of men, deer 36, raven 108, phoenix 972, nymphs 9720. — Frazer Pausanias IV 217.
B841.3. Dog so old his head is skinless. Eskimo (Greenland): Holm 80.
B841.4. Stags live one thousand years. Tupper and Ogle Map 4.
B842. Faithful old dog to be killed. *Type 101.
B842.1. Faithful old horse to be abandoned. German: Grimm No. 132.
B843. Immortal animals. Jewish: Neuman.
B37. Immortal bird. D1850. Immortality.
B843.1. Immortal serpent. Gaster Oldest Stories 81.
B843.2. Immortal donkey. Jewish: Neuman.
B845. Wild animals herded. *Fb "hare" IV 201a; *Type 570; Irish myth: Cross.
B575.1. Wild animals kept as dogs. D1444. Magic object catches animal. H1112. Task: herding rabbits. H1154. Task: capturing animals.
B845.1. Wild pigs kept by demigod as if domesticated. India: Thompson-Balys.
B845.2. Animals chained in couples. Irish myth: Cross.
B172.7. Magic birds chained in couples.
B846. Monkeys construct a bridge across the ocean. Penzer II 84 n. 1, 85 n.
B549.3. Dragon makes bridge across stream for holy man.
B847. Lions placed in city to prevent entrance. Penzer I 108 n. 3.
B848. Man unharmed in den of animals (Cf. B771.2.1.) — Type 403; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Jewish: *Neuman.
B848.1. The musician in the wolf-trap: meets wolf a1ready trapped, and saves himself by playing music. (Cf. K551.3.1.) — Lithuanian: Balys Index No. *168; Estonian: Aarne in FFC XXV No. 2002.
B767. Animal attracted by music.
B848.2. Girl removes dog from lion's claws without being harmed. Italian Novella: Rotunda.
B771. Animal tamed by maiden's beauty.
B852. When cow calls her calf, all cattle graze. Irish myth: Cross.
B182. Magic cow (ox. bull).
B853. Birds perch on ears of cows. Irish myth: Cross.
B854. Each of grazing herd of cows eats same amount. Irish myth: Cross.
B855. Man and bear in the rick of hay. The bear, persecuted by wolves, runs onto the hay-rick where the man was hidden, and defends himself from the wolves with bunches of hay. — Lithuanian: Balys Index No. *167.
B857. Animal avenges injury. Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 18 No. 9; Africa (Fang): Tessman 117f.
N261. Train of troubles for sparrow's vengence. Q211.6. Killing an animal avenged.
