μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Escape by blinding the guard. Pepper or tobacco thrown into his eyes.

Deceptions. · Escape by deception. · Escape by deceiving the guard. · view the constellation · filed as K621

Filed across the traditions
  • Spanish Espinosa Jr. Nos. 2, 124
  • Louisiana Creole Fortier MAFLS II 115
  • Alu Wheeler 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 head Escape from animals by blowing ashes into their faces
Filed beside it
Captive plays further and further from watchman and escapes Watchman outwitted by having rope stretched across the road while fugitives escape Abductors tricked into running race while captive escapes Escape by giving narcotic to guards Escape by bribing the guard Escape by deceiving the guard – miscellaneous
Carried in tale types

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