Helper dressed in bear's skin helps to escape

Motif

Helper dressed in bear's skin helps to escape.

Deceptions. · Escape by deception. · Escape by help of confederate. · view the constellation · filed as K649.7.2

Scholars’ trail — 2references

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IcelandicÞiðriks saga I 261–72 (cf. 339–40), Asbjørnsen og Moe No. 58 (type 590), Boberg.
general Krappe Scandinavian Studies XVIII (1945) 275–283

Within the index

Filed under Confederate in disguise helps man escape.

Filed beside it

Confederate in disguise as beggar helps to escape Confederate in disguise as "troll" frightens king's men, while his daughter helps prisoner to escape. (Cf. F455.)

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