The constellation
R220 Flights
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- Heroine's three-fold flight from ball. Cinderella (Cap o' Rushes) after meeting the prince at a ball (church) flees before identification is possible. Repeated three times · R221 entry
- Unknown knight. (Three days' tournament.) For three days in succession an unknown knight in different armor wins a tournament and escapes without recognition. Finally identified by tokens · R222 entry
- Girl flees to escape incestuous brother · R224 entry
- Elopement · R225 entry
- Wife flees from husband. (Cf. P210, T200.) · R227 entry
- Children leave home because their parents refuse them food · R228 entry
- Obstacle flight – Atalanta type. Objects are thrown back which the pursuer stops to pick up while the fugitive escapes · R231 entry
- Fugitive kills pursuer and takes his extraordinary horse to continue flight · R233 entry
- Fugitives cut support of bridge so that pursuer falls · R235 entry
- Pursuers aided by magic weather phenomenon · R236 entry
- Flight on skis; two on one pair · R241 entry
- Flight carrying friend (girl) on back · R242 entry
- Fugitives aided by helpful animal. (Cf. B520.) · R243 entry
- Ships burned to prevent flight · R244 entry
- Whale-boat. A man is carried across the water on a whale (fish). (He usually deceives the whale as to the nearness of the land or as to hearing thunder. As a consequence the whale runs into the shore or is killed by lightning.) · R245 entry
- Crane-bridge. Fugitives are helped across a stream by a crane who lets them cross on his leg. The pursuer is either refused assistance or drowned by the crane · R246 entry
- Flight on a tree, which ogre tries to cut down · R251 entry
- Flight by vaulting on stick · R252 entry
- Escape from nest of giant bird by seizing two young birds and jumping · R253 entry
- Formula for girl fleeing: behind me night, etc. "Behind me night and before me day that no one shall see where I go." · R255 entry
- Fugitives sustain selves on apples · R257 entry