Captive plays further and further from watchman and escapes

Motif

Captive plays further and further from watchman and escapes.

Deceptions. · Escape by deception. · Escape by deceiving the guard. · view the constellation · filed as K622

Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

Africa (Kaffir)Theal 33, (Basuto): Jacottet 102 No. 15
West IndiesFlowers 519.

Within the index

Filed under Escape by deceiving the guard.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Escape by pretended debate as to which must be judged. Jackals thus induce leopard to permit them to enter their cave, while he waits in vain Escape from captor by throwing objects to great distance which captor tries to procure

Filed beside it

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

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