μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Filed across the traditions
  • English Child V 499 s. v. "transformations"
  • Greek Grote I 182
  • Jewish Neuman
  • Arabian Burton Nights V 353
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Japanese Ikeda
  • Philippine (Tinguian) Cole 75, 17 n. 1
  • Eskimo (Greenland) Rasmussen I 327, 367, III 124, Rink 195, (Cumberland Sound): Boas BAM XV 182
  • N. Am. Indian *Thompson Tales 334 n. 205b
  • Jamaica Beckwith MAFLS XVII 274 No. 86. – Africa (Kaffir): Theal 98, (Zulu): Callaway 21, (Basuto): Jacottet 206 No. 30, Casalis Les Bassoutos (Paris 1859) 349.
  • general *Types 313, 325, 327
  • general **Aarne Die magische Flucht (FFC XCII)
  • general *Fb "and" IV 12b, "rose" III 80a. – Irish myth: *Cross
  • general S. Am. Indian (Sharanti, Comacan, Mashacalí): Horton BBAE CXLIII 3 294, (Mundurucu): Horton ibid. 3 281
Within the index

Filed under Magic flight.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Fugitive transforms self to stone. Thrown to safety by pursuer Fugitive transformed by helper to escape detection Reversed transformation flight. Transformed pursuer. Koryak: Jochelson JE VI 363
Filed beside it
Obstacle flight. Fugitives throw objects behind them which magically become obstacles in pursuer's path Reversed obstacle flight. Magic obstacles raised in front of fugitive Magic flight with the help of a he-goat. Speaking he-goat saves the girl promised to the devil Sea turns to ice to permit flight
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Transformation to elude pursuers. (Cf. D671, D672.)
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Obstacle flight. Fugitives throw objects behind them which magically become obstacles in pursuer's path Reversed obstacle flight. Magic obstacles raised in front of fugitive Ladder to upper world Ascent to upper world on arrow chain. Hero shoots arrows which join one another in the air to form a chain Bridge to otherworld
Carried in tale types

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