μῦθοι Mythoi
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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

  • IndiaThompson-Balys.
Within the index
7 finer motifs beneath it
Escape by blinding the guard. Pepper or tobacco thrown into his eyesCaptive plays further and further from watchman and escapesWatchman outwitted by having rope stretched across the road while fugitives escapeAbductors tricked into running race while captive escapesEscape by giving narcotic to guardsEscape by bribing the guardEscape by deceiving the guard – miscellaneous

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