μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Free animal saves its captured friend.

Deceptions. · Escape by deception. · Escape by help of confederate. · view the constellation · filed as K642

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Filed under Escape by help of confederate.

1 finer motif beneath it
Crow and rat release deer from snare
Filed beside it
One animal saves another by frightening enemy away Confederate sings and delays pursuers so that fugitive escapes Monkey attracts attention of mowers until young birds can fly away from the harvest field Monkey saves condemned birds through feigned dream Fugitive's confederate misdirects pursuer Confederate cuts rope almost in two so that prisoner breaks it and flees Bird's call attracts attention of pursuer so that trickster escapes Escape by help of confederate – miscellaneous

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