Hero shoots monster (or animal) and follows it into lower world

Motif

Hero shoots monster (or animal) and follows it into lower world.

Marvels. · Other world journeys. · The lower world. · Visit to lower world – miscellaneous motifs. · view the constellation · filed as F102.1

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Scholars’ trail — 4references

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.

Africa (Ekoi)Talbot 99.
general *Type 301
general *Krappe Balor 100 nn. 22, 23
general *De Vries Nederlandsche Tijdschrift voor Volkskunde (1924) 97–123. – Indonesia: De Vries's list No. 163, Dixon 213 n. 12

Within the index

Filed under Accidental arrival in lower world.

Filed beside it

Sound of drum followed into ghost town Rescued princess leaves her necklace behind in flight; hero returns for it and is left in underworld Boy follows nut into lower world

Carried in tale types

The Three Stolen Princesses · ATU 3011 recorded variant

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