Cutting thongs of sleds prevents pursuit

Motif

Cutting thongs of sleds prevents pursuit.

Deceptions. · Escape by deception. · Escape by disarming (making pursuit difficult). · view the constellation · filed as K637

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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.

Eskimo (Greenland)Rink 131, 448, 469, (Central Eskimo): Boas RBAE VI 634, (Smith Sound): Kroeber JAFL XII 167.

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Captor induced to disarm himself Mice gnaw enemies' bow strings and prevent pursuit Captor's powder is removed, ashes substituted: gun does not discharge Escape by arranging captor's clothes so as to delay him Sleeping enemies' hair tied to an object prevents pursuit Holes bored in enemies' boats prevent pursuit Captive tied to captor escapes by tying end of rope to a post

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