Children hidden to avoid their execution (death) — Mythoi

Motif

Children hidden to avoid their execution (death).

Deceptions. · Escape by deception. · Death order evaded. · view the constellation · filed as K515.1

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth *Cross
Icelandic Hrólfssaga Kraka 3, 22, Hálfdanarsaga Brönufóstra (FAS III) 565
Greek Fox 155 (Zeus and Kronus), Grote I 6
Jewish *Neuman
India Thompson-Balys
Eskimo (West Hudson Bay) Boas BAM XV 189, (Kodiak): Golder JAFL XVI 28
Africa (Ekoi) Talbot 355, (Pangwe): Tessman 366, (Fang): Tessman 108
Jamaica Beckwith MAFLS XVII 275 No. 88.

Within the index

Filed under Escape by hiding.

Filed beside it

Girl escapes by hiding in huge harp Sleeping persons covered with oxhide and so saved Escape by hiding in kettle Escape by hiding in rice-bin Escape by hiding in the earth

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