Magic object answers for fugitive. Left behind to impersonate fugitive and delay pursuit

Motif

Magic object answers for fugitive. Left behind to impersonate fugitive and delay pursuit.

Magic. · Magic objects. · Characteristics of magic objects. · Automatic magic objects. · Magic speaking objects. · view the constellation · filed as D1611

Attested across traditions

North American Indigenous Tales of the North American Indians , Tale 50 receipt
North American Indigenous Tales of the North American Indians , Tale 51 receipt

Filed across the traditions

India Thompson-Balys
Japanese Ikeda
Indonesian Dixon 85 n. *91, 225 n. 32
N. Am. Indian *Thompson Tales 331 n. 196.
general *Type 313
general *Aarne Die Magische Flucht (FFC XCIII)
general *BP II 527
general *Fb "spytte" III 515a
general Melanesian, Maori: ibid. 85 n. 91

Within the index

Filed under Magic speaking objects.

18 finer motifs beneath it

Filed beside it

Magic powder makes objects speak what owner wants them to. (Cf. D1246.) Speaking sink-hole. (Cf. D933.) Speaking tree. (Cf. D950, D1317.20.) Speaking plant. (Cf. D965, F815.) Speaking flower. (Cf. D975.) Speaking head. (Cf. D992.) Speaking privates. Man given advice by his private parts. (Cf. D998.) Speaking loin of goat meat. (Cf. D1032.) Speaking ring. (Cf. D1076.) Speaking weapon. (Cf. D1080.) Speaking fruit. (Cf. D981.) Speaking ship. (Cf. D1123.) Speaking stove. (Cf. D1161.) Speaking dish. (Cf. D1172.) Speaking implement Speaking bell. (Cf. D1213.)

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Grateful objects help fugitive. (Cf. D1393, D1611.)

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

Wish for supernatural husband (wife) realized. (Cf. C26.) Tabu: digging. (Cf. C522.) Magic rosebush answers for fugitives. (Cf. D965.3.) Tell-tale magic objects Lecherous trickster seduces women from tree and loses them

Carried in tale types

The Magic Flight · ATU 313 24 recorded variants

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