B. Animals
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B363.1. Lion is freed from net by mouse. Mouse asks that his son marry lion's daughter. Request granted. The mouse is trampled to death by his bride. — Italian Novella: Rotunda.
B364. Animal grateful for other rescue.
B364.1. Animal grateful for rescue from trap. Philippine: Fansler MAFLS XII 336; India: Thompson-Balys. — Africa (Lamba): Doke XXXII No. 15.
B364.2. Animal grateful for rescue from fire. Italian Novella: Rotunda.
B364.3. Insect having fallen on back grateful for being turned over. Africa (Ganda): Baskerville King of the Snakes 8ff.
B364.4. Bird grateful for being saved from attacking serpent. Cook Islands: Beckwith Myth 269.
B364.5. Animal grateful for rescue from mud. India: Thompson-Balys.
B365. Animal grateful for rescue of its young. *Hartland Perseus III 194; Köhler-Bolte I 440, 545, 560, *561. — Japanese: Mitford 261, Ikeda; India: *Thompson-Balys; Missouri-French: Carrière.
B365.0.1. Bird grateful for rescue of its young. India: Thompson-Balys.
B365.1. Animal grateful for rescue of its mate. India: Thompson-Balys.
B365.2. Animal grateful to hero for preventing distraction of nest.
B365.2.1. Ant grateful for preventing distruction of nest. German: Grimm No. 62.
B365.3. Animal grateful for release of relative. Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 65.
B366. Animal grateful for ransom from captivity. BP II 451 (Gr. No. 104a), *454 n. l.; Wienert FFC LVI 70 (ET 337), 127 (ST 354, 489); Halm Aesop No. 6. — India: *Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Ikeda.
B278. Captured animal ransoms self.
B370. Animal grateful to captor for release.
B371. Small animal released from jaws of large one: grateful.
B371.1. Lion spared mouse: mouse grateful. Later releases lion from net. (Cf. B363.) — Jacobs Aesop 203 No. 11, Halm Aesop 256, cf. Type 75. — Spanish Exempla: Keller; India: *Thompson-Balys.
Q55. Reward for sparing life when in animal form.
B371.2. Lion spares fly: fly grateful. Later warns lion. — India: Thompson-Balys.
B374. Other animals grateful for release.
B374.1. Lion rescued from snake: thankful. Spanish Exempla: Keller.
B375. Release of animal by hunter (fisher). Africa (Angola): Chatelain 159 No. 19 (deer). — German: Grimm No. 60, 191. — India: Thompson-Balys.
B375.1. Fish returned to water: grateful. *Fb "fisk"; Hartland Science 174. — India: Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Graham. — Two special forms of this motif are common; in both the fish is returned to the water and rewards the captor. (1). The "King of the Fishes" form: a
