μῦθοι 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

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“He ad- vised the children to run away, but they did not obey. When they saw the gum, they stepped up to the Snanaik and asked her to give them some. The Snanaik gave a piece of gum to all the children, and when she saw Anutkoats, who was advising the children to return home, she took him and threw him into the basket which she was carrying on her back. Then she took all the other children and threw them on top of him into her basket.”

— Tales of the North American Indians, Tale 71 · served from our shelf  receiptuncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

Attested across traditions
Scholars’ trail — 10references

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.

  • IcelandicSveinsson FFC LXXXIII No. 327C
  • NorwegianChristiansen Norske Eventyr 44
  • SpanishBoggs FFC XC 44 No. 311B*
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • KoryakJochelson 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
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Filed under Death escaped through disguise, shamming, or substitution.

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Escape by disguiseEscape by shamming deathEscape by shamming illnessEscape by use of substituted object. The object is attacked rather than the intended victimEscape by substituting another person in place of the intended victimSubstitute in ordeal. An ordeal (usually dangerous) is escaped by deceptively providing a substituteEscape from battle by magic invisibilityEscape under mantle of invisibilityEscape by successive disguisesEscape 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 escapesPrincess cuts hair to escape captor who holds her hair in hand while sleeping with her
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Person comes to lifePerson falls into ogre's powerOgre carries victim in bag (basket)Bodies of victims in front of ogre's houseMask mistaken for faceStatue mistaken for living original. (Cf. K1840.)Contest won by magicFalse beauty-doctor. The trickster pretends to make the dupe beautiful. Injures himSham physicianFugitive discovered by reflection in waterShepherdess born of red and blue egg
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