Impostors throw hero overboard into sea — Mythoi

Motif

Impostors throw hero overboard into sea.

Deceptions. · Deception through shams. · Impostures. · Treacherous impostors. · view the constellation · filed as K1931.1

Filed across the traditions

Spanish Espinosa II Nos. 133–135
N. Am. Indian Thompson CColl II 404ff.
Jamaica Beckwith MAFLS XVII 284 No. 119.
general *Type 506
general **Liljeblad Tobiasgeschichte
general *BP III 490ff., 494

Within the index

Filed under Impostors abandon (or kill) their companion and usurp his place.

1 finer motif beneath it

Impostor tries to push foster brother into the water and then cuts rope so that he drifts alone out on the sea in boat without oars

Filed beside it

Impostors abandon hero in lower world. Usually let rope drop on which he is to be raised Impostors kill hero Impostors throw hero into pit Impostors throw hero into prison Impostor leaves hero alone on island. (Cf. S145.) Impostor abandons hero on high hill. Pulls down rope on which he is to be lowered

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