μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
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.

  • Africa (Benga)Nassau 143 No. 16, (Ibo, Nigeria): Basden 279.
Within the index

Filed under Escape by help of confederate.

Filed beside it
Free animal saves its captured friendConfederate sings and delays pursuers so that fugitive escapesMonkey attracts attention of mowers until young birds can fly away from the harvest fieldMonkey saves condemned birds through feigned dreamFugitive's confederate misdirects pursuerConfederate cuts rope almost in two so that prisoner breaks it and fleesBird's call attracts attention of pursuer so that trickster escapesEscape by help of confederate – miscellaneous

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