h49


Motif

Motif code: 
h49
Name_eng: 
Pet defends master’s child
Description: 

A dog or other animal kills dangerous creature who was going to attack the child. The master thinks that the assailant was the pet and kills it

Name_rus: 
Преданный пес
Description_rus: 
Собака или иное животное убивает существо, угрожавшее маленькому ребенку. Хозяин или другие люди принимают спасителя за агрессора и убивают его
Motif group: 
Motif analysis result tradition count all: 
45
ATU ID: 
178A
Stith Thompson ID: 
B524.1.4.1

Linked traditions:
Arabs of Iraq
Tunisia Arabs
Gogo, Kaguru, Luguru, Zigula, Taveta, Shambala (Šambala), Bondei, Taeta, Dabida; Zaramo
Tiv, Bamum (Bamun), Mungaka (Mgaka, Bali), Beba, Anaguta, Bete (Mbete, Karang), Ekoi, Nyang, Vute (Wute), Jukun, Chamba, Bamileke, Kwotto, Kirri; Denya (Nyang)
Bugi, Macassar
Burmese, Intha
Thai of Thailand
Khmer
Northern Munda of Kharwar branch: Birhor, Ho, Mundari, Kol, Asur (including Agaria, Kol, Birjhia), Bhumij
Maria, Muria, and other South-Central Dravidians: Binjhwar, Baсор, Bhattra, Bom, Jhoria (=Jhodia), Gadaba (in Koraput, neighbors of Munda-speaking Gadaba), Duruwa (Parji), Mehtar; Pardhan
Indian literary tradition (Vedic, Brahman, Purana, Indian Buddhism, Hinduism, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Panchtantra, Jatakas); iconography of Hindu temples
Tamil, Muthuvan, Marvar
Hindi-speaking peoples and casts (incl. Teli, Parahiya; incl. Chhattisgarhi) of Northern and West-Central India
Ireland
Wales
England
Spain
Dutch, Flemish
Germans: Northwest (Low- and Central German dialects): Schleswig-Holstein, Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony, incl. East Frisia and Oldenburg), Nordrhein-Westfalen, Hessen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Thüringen, Saxony-Anhalt, Sachsen
Poles
Czech
Bulgarians
Macedonians
Ancient Greece
Finns
Karelians
Danes
Baluch
Persians
Avar, Andi, Akhvakh
Armenians
Kalmyk
Kurds
Buryats: Western (cis Baikal)
Mongols (Khalkha)
Monguor (Tu), Shirongol
Tuvinians of Tuva
Central Tibetans (Yu Tsang, incl. Sikkim Tibetans, Tichurong of NW Nepal)
Oriya (incl. Dom/Domba/Dombo, Ghasi, Bhat and other Oriya-speaking castes of Odisha)
Arabs (literary tradition; incl. One Thousand and One Nights)
Mongols of Inner Mongolia
Early Russian written sources
Germans: Southeast: Bawaria (incl. Ober Pfaltz), Franken, Bohemia (Sudeten), Austria
Frisians
Rusyns, Hutsuls

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