The Enchanted Watch

The dog asked it how far it was to land, and the cat finally answered; the watch fell from its mouth.

[4] Russian scholarship divided the type's narrative sequence in 4 episodes: A European literary predecessor of the tale type appears in Pentamerone, with the tale The Stone in the Cock's Head[6] or The Rooster's Stone.

[7] Russian folklorist Lev Barag [ru] stated that an Asian predecessor can be found in the Mongolian compilation of Siddhi Kûr, in the tale How the Brahmane became a King.

[8] Folklorist Andrew Lang, in the late 19th century, noted the existence in Punjaub, among the Bretons, the Albanians, the Greeks and the Russians, of a tale about a youth that gets a magical ring; the ring is stolen and he retrieves it with the aid of grateful animals he has helped in the past.

[9] According to professor Yolando Pino Saavedra, the tale type ATU 560 enjoys more popularity in Eastern Europe.

[11] Greek folklorist Georgios A. Megas stated that the tale type is "widely told in Greece", and reported 72 variants.

[12] French Slavicist Louis Léger collected a nearly identical tale from a Bohemian source, titled La Montre Enchantée ("The Enchanted Watch").

When the youth is accused of stealing from the king and thrown in the sea in a casket, the animals rescue him and take him to a deserted island.