Spider-web over hole saves fugitive. (Cf. A2221.5.)

Motif

Spider-web over hole saves fugitive. (Cf. A2221.5.)

Animals. · Friendly animals. · Services of helpful animals. · Animals save person's life. · view the constellation · filed as B523.1

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Scholars’ trail — 6references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

LappishQvigstad Lappiske Eventyr I No. 32, II No. 68. – India: Thompson-Balys
JapaneseIkeda
Africa (Fang)Trilles 139.
general Type 967*
general *Dh II 66f. – *Wesselski Theorie 42. – Jewish: Neuman, Bin Gorion
general Born Judas 2d ed. III 115ff., Grünbaum Neue Beiträge zur Semitischen Sagenkunde 195

Within the index

Filed under Animal saves man from pursuer.

Filed beside it

Whale fights monster pursuing saint Great clam fights hero's pursuer

Travels with

Animal blessed for helping holy fugitive. (Cf. A2231.7.1.)

Carried in tale types

Flight to Egypt · ATU 750E4 recorded variants
The Man Saved by a Spider Web · ATU 9671 recorded variant

wander