μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Escape by reversing horse's (ox's) shoes.

Deceptions. · Escape by deception. · Death escaped through disguise, shamming, or substitution. · view the constellation · filed as K534.1

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“See The Fragments of Sophocles, ὑποδήματα τοῖς ποσὶ περιέθηκε, καὶ κομίσας εἰς Πύλον τὰς μὲν λοιπὰς εἰς σπήλαιον ἀπέκρυψε, δύο δὲ καταθύσας τὰς μὲν βύρσας πέτραις καθή- λωσε, τῶν δὲ κρεῶν τὰ μὲν κατηνάλωσεν ἑψήσας τὰ δὲ κατέκαυσε' καὶ ταχέως εἰς Κυλλήνην ὥχετο. καὶ εὑρίσκει πρὸ τοῦ ἄντρου νεμομένην χελώνην. ταύτην ἐκκαθάρας, εἰς τὸ κύτος χορδὰς ἐντείνας ἐξ ὧν ἔθυσε βοῶν καὶ ἐργασάμενος λύραν εὗρε καὶ πλῆκτρον. ᾿Απόλλων δὲ τὰς Boas…”

The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK III, ch. X · served from our shelf uncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

On our shelf — the index’s citations, resolved to served chapters
Scholars’ trail — 11references

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.

  • EnglandBaughman
  • Icelandic*Boberg
  • Greek*Frazer Apollodorus II 8 n. 1 → on our shelf: The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK III, ch. X
  • SwissJegerlehner Oberwallis 324 No. 155
  • ChineseChavannes 500 Contes II 407
  • AfricaFrobenius Atlantis VII 6.
  • general *Fb "sko" III 288b, "gå" IV 194b, "hestesko" IV 214a
  • general Laport FFC LXXXIV 49
  • general Köhler-Bolte II 381
  • general *Child III 476n., 479f., 487, 489
  • general *Babler Sudetendeutsche Zs. f. Vksk. VII (1934) 77
Within the index

Filed under Escape by reversing shoes (boat).

Filed beside it
Escape by reversing snowshoesHero walks backward to leave misleading trailEscape by rowing boat stern foremost
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
God as thiefGod serves as menial on earthOrigin of lyre. Hermes makes it from a tortoiseOrigin of shepherd's pipeColor of raven. (Cf. A2237.1, A2234.1, A2231.1, A2218.1)Magic power of seeing things undergroundResuscitation by bloodSuitor contest: raceBirth of human being from an egg. (Cf. F611.1.11.)Precocious infant

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