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Motif

Reversed obstacle flight. Magic obstacles raised in front of fugitive.

Magic. · Transformation. · Miscellaneous transformation incidents. · Magic flight. · view the constellation · filed as D673

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“Then he rolled over and pretended to go to sleep again but looked out through his eyelashes. By and by he saw a very small but handsome girl coming along. Her skin clothes were very clean and neat, and her leggings were ornamented with porcupine quills. Just as she reached out to shake him he said, “I have seen you already.” Now the girl stood still and said, “I have come after you. My grandmother has sent me to bring you to her house.””

— Tales of the North American Indians, Tale 53 · served from our shelf  receiptuncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

Attested across traditions
Scholars’ trail — 2references

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  • general Type 450
  • general BP III 205. – Arabic: A. Jahn Die Mehri-Sprache in Südarabien (Wien, 1902) 124 No. 28, D. H. Müller Mehri und Hadrami-Texte (Wien, 1909) 99 No. 39, ibid. Mehri und Soquotri Sprache (Wien, 1905) II 99 No. 20.
Within the index

Filed under Magic flight.

Filed beside it
Transformation flight. Fugitives transforms themselves in order to escape detection by the pursuerObstacle flight. Fugitives throw objects behind them which magically become obstacles in pursuer's pathMagic flight with the help of a he-goat. Speaking he-goat saves the girl promised to the devilSea turns to ice to permit flight
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Transformation flight. Fugitives transforms themselves in order to escape detection by the pursuerObstacle flight. Fugitives throw objects behind them which magically become obstacles in pursuer's pathLadder to upper worldAscent to upper world on arrow chain. Hero shoots arrows which join one another in the air to form a chainBridge to otherworld

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