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Motif

Obstacle flight. Fugitives throw objects behind them which magically become obstacles in pursuer's path.

Magic. · Transformation. · Miscellaneous transformation incidents. · Magic flight. · view the constellation · filed as D672

Attested across traditions
Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth Cross
  • Breton Sébillot Incidents s. v. "objets"
  • Swiss Jegerlehner Oberwallis 304 No. 30
  • Icelandic Boberg
  • Hungarian Solymossy Hongaarsche Sagen (Zutphen, 1929) 403
  • French Canadian Barbeau JAFL XXIX 11
  • Jewish Neuman
  • India *Thompson-Balys, Penzer II 21, III 227 n. 1, 236ff., IX 151
  • Chinese Eberhard FFC CXX 234f.
  • Korean Zong in-Sob 173f.
  • Japanese Ikeda: Indonesian: Dixon 236 nn. 48, 49, DeVries Volksverhalen Nos. 16, 17, 63, 116
  • Philippine (Tinguian) *Cole 75, 17 n. 1
  • Marquesas Handy 117
  • N. Am. Indian *Thompson Tales 333 n. 205, (Yuchi): Speck UPa I 141 n. 5, Hatt Asiatic Influences 92ff.
  • Eskimo (Mackenzie Area) Jenness 79, (Greenland): Rasmussen I 106
  • Jamaica Beckwith MAFLS XVII 274 No. 86
  • Africa (Duala) Lederbogen Märchen 145, (Basuto): Jacottet 4 No. 1, 220 No. 32, (Mpongwe): Nassau 74 No. 15, (Kaffir): Theal 87
  • general *Types 313, 314, 325, 327, 502
  • general **Aarne Die Magische Flucht (FFC XCII)
  • general **BP II 140
  • general Fb "hår" I 771b, "flaske" I 309a, "hvidtorn" I 703a
  • general *Wesselski Theorie 31
  • general *Hdwb. d. Märch. I 151a
  • general *Hdwb. d. Abergl. II 1655
  • general Cosquin Études 166, 193ff. – England, Scotland, U.S.: *Baughman
  • general S. Am. Indian (Mundurucú, Carajá): Lowie BBAE CXLIII (3) 55, (Amuesha): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 149
  • general Frobenius Atlantis IV 220, V 308. Cf. Ceiuci: Alexander Lat. Am. 304.
Within the index

Filed under Magic flight.

1 finer motif beneath it
Magic objects as decoy for pursuer. Date palms are dropped which are transformed into animals which the pursuer stops to pick up
Filed beside it
Transformation flight. Fugitives transforms themselves in order to escape detection by the pursuer 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
Transformation flight. Fugitives transforms themselves in order to escape detection by the pursuer 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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