Captor's bag filled with animals or objects while captives escape — Mythoi

Motif

Captor's bag filled with animals or objects while captives escape.

Deceptions. · Escape by deception. · Death escaped through disguise, shamming, or substitution. · view the constellation · filed as K526

Attested across traditions

North American Indigenous Tales of the North American Indians , Tale 71 receipt

Filed across the traditions

Icelandic Sveinsson FFC LXXXIII No. 327C
Norwegian Christiansen Norske Eventyr 44
Spanish Boggs FFC XC 44 No. 311B*
India *Thompson-Balys
Koryak Jochelson JE VI 181, 212
N. Am. Indian *Thompson Tales 351 n. 268a
Africa (Kaffir) Theal 120, 136, (Basuto): Jacottet 66 No. 10, (Zulu): Callaway 6, 74, 345, (Congo): Grenfell 824
American Negro (Georgia) Harris Nights 386 No. 70, (Virginia): Parsons JAFL XXXV 262.
general *Type 327C
general S. Am. Indian (Aymara): Tschapik BBAE CXLIII (1) 571

Within the index

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

Filed beside it

Escape by disguise Escape by shamming death Escape by shamming illness Escape by use of substituted object. The object is attacked rather than the intended victim 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

Person comes to life Person falls into ogre's power Ogre carries victim in bag (basket) Bodies of victims in front of ogre's house Mask mistaken for face Statue mistaken for living original. (Cf. K1840.) Contest won by magic False beauty-doctor. The trickster pretends to make the dupe beautiful. Injures him Sham physician Fugitive discovered by reflection in water Shepherdess born of red and blue egg

Carried in tale types

The Devil and the Bees · ATU 1177 1 recorded variant
The Profitable Exchange · ATU 1655 1 recorded variant
The Singing Bag · ATU 311B* 1 recorded variant
Trash Substituted for Booty Taken from Fox's Bag (previously Game Taken from Fox's Bag and Trash Substituted) · ATU 67A* 1 recorded variant

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