μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

  • Italian NovellaRotunda
  • IndiaThompson-Balys.
  • general Boje 112ff.
Within the index

Filed under Escape by deceiving the guard.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Escape of girl foiled by hero's refusal to take narcoticEscape by making the watchmen drunk
Filed beside 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 bribing the guardEscape by deceiving the guard – miscellaneous

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