The constellation
R251 Flight on a tree, which ogre tries to cut down
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● motif
● tale type
● on the shelf
● attested
The same sky, in words
carried in tale type
- The Cannibal Sister · ATU 315A
filed beside
- 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