Escape by use of substituted object. The object is attacked rather than the intended victim — Mythoi

Motif

Escape by use of substituted object. The object is attacked rather than the intended victim.

Deceptions. · Escape by deception. · Death escaped through disguise, shamming, or substitution. · view the constellation · filed as K525

Attested across traditions

North American Indigenous Tales of the North American Indians , Tale 75 receipt

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth *Cross
Missouri French Carrière, Italian Novella: Rotunda
Greek *Frazer Apollodorus I 8 n. 2 (Zeus and Kronus) → on our shelf: The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK I, ch. II
India *Thompson-Balys
Indonesia DeVries's list No. 37, Dixon 200, *201 n. 38
Philippine Fansler MAFLS XII 51
Chinese Graham
Eskimo (Greenland) Rasmussen III 65, Rink 107, (West Hudson Bay): Boas BAM XV 194
N. Am. Indian *Thompson Tales 355 n. 282
Africa (Basuto) Jacottet 226 No. 33.
general *Types 160*, 311
general *BP I 398ff.

Within the index

Filed under Death escaped through disguise, shamming, or substitution.

10 finer motifs beneath it

Substituted object left in bed while intended victim escapes Man steps aside so that only his shadow is caught Object substituted for murdered person so as to allay suspicion Animal jumps out of skin so that only skin is caught Man leaves mantle so that only mantle is hit Escape, leaving dog as substitute Girl escapes from ogress by substituting pig Destructive magic object tried out on something inanimate Cock's blood given spirits instead of human blood Escape by leaving behind false images made of spittle

Filed beside it

Escape by disguise Escape by shamming death Escape by shamming illness Captor's bag filled with animals or objects while captives escape Escape by substituting another person in place of the intended victim Substitute in ordeal. An ordeal (usually dangerous) is escaped by deceptively providing a substitute Escape from battle by magic invisibility Escape under mantle of invisibility Escape by successive disguises Escape by reversing shoes (boat) Captors deceived into believing captive is planning to stay with them: vigilance relaxed. Captured general orders heavy boxes taken into the temple. These are thought to be gold and it is concluded that he will not try to leave. He escapes Princess cuts hair to escape captor who holds her hair in hand while sleeping with her

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

Fight of the gods and giants World-fire. A conflagration destroys the earth. Sometimes (as with the flood legends) the tradition is somewhat local and does not refer to an actual destruction of the whole earth; sometimes the fire marks the end of the world Looking tabu Sky-basket. Ascent to or descent from upper world in a basket Unnatural parents eat children Recognition by "force of nature". Unknown member of family immediately and magically recognized

Carried in tale types

Rescue by the Sister · ATU 311 6 recorded variants
A Woman Betrays a Bear (previously The Woman Betrays the Bears) · ATU 160* 1 recorded variant

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