Children hidden to avoid their execution (death)

Motif

Children hidden to avoid their execution (death).

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

Scholars’ trail — 8references

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.

Irish myth*Cross
IcelandicHrólfssaga Kraka 3, 22, Hálfdanarsaga Brönufóstra (FAS III) 565
GreekFox 155 (Zeus and Kronus), Grote I 6
Jewish*Neuman
IndiaThompson-Balys
Eskimo (West Hudson Bay)Boas BAM XV 189, (Kodiak): Golder JAFL XVI 28
Africa (Ekoi)Talbot 355, (Pangwe): Tessman 366, (Fang): Tessman 108
JamaicaBeckwith 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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