μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
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.

  • SpanishEspinosa Jr. Nos. 2, 124
  • Louisiana CreoleFortier MAFLS II 115
  • AluWheeler 42, 48
  • N. Am. Indian (California)Gayton and Newman 95
  • Africa (Mpongwe)Nassau 45f. No. 6, (Wute): Sieber ZsES XII 174, (Cameroon): Meinhof 89
  • American Negro (Georgia)Harris Remus 30 No. 7, 47 No. 10, Nights 95 No. 18, 280 No. 47, (Virginia): Parsons JAFL XXXV 262, (North Carolina): Parsons JAFL XXX 178, (South Carolina): Parsons JAFL XXXVIII 219
  • Jamaica*Beckwith MAFLS XVII 240 No. 13, 247 No. 23.
  • general *Type 73
  • general *Thompson CColl II 440f.
  • general Dh IV 184
Within the index

Filed under Escape by deceiving the guard.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Red ants' nest broken and thrown down on ogre's headEscape from animals by blowing ashes into their faces
Filed beside it
Captive 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
Carried in tale types

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