Sleeping potion given to man who is to pass the night with a girl. (Sometimes magic pillow or magic sleeping card.) — Mythoi

Motif

Sleeping potion given to man who is to pass the night with a girl. (Sometimes magic pillow or magic sleeping card.)

Deceptions. · Escape by deception. · Other means of escape. · view the constellation · filed as K675

Filed across the traditions

Spanish Boggs FFC XC 54 No. 400B*
Italian Novella Rotunda
Missouri French Carrière
India Thompson-Balys.
general *Schoepperle I 257 n. 1
general *Wesselski Märchen 254 No. 61
general Child I 393, III 506b, IV 459b

Within the index

Filed under Other means of escape.

1 finer motif beneath it

Paramour unwittingly drinks sleeping potion. Is thought dead and placed in a chest. Chest is stolen. When he escapes he is accused of being a robber. He is saved by his mistress's maid who explains all, transferring the role played by her mistress to herself

Filed beside it

Wolf descends into well in one bucket and rescues fox in the other Fox climbs from pit on wolf's back Prisoner kills his watchers who enter to torture him. Escapes Captors lured into drowning selves Exaggerated tales about escapes Escape from suspicion of crime Captive throws his hat to lions who fight over it while he escapes Captive throws his shoe at serpent who chokes while he escapes Trickster persuades pursuers to ride in his basket. Leaves basket on limb of tree and escapes Hero tests the rope on which he is to be pulled to upper world. By placing stones on the rope he discovers his companions' treacherous plan to cut the rope Cutting rope to kill ogre who is climbing the rope to reach his victim Small animal in mouth of larger causes captor to spit him out. (Defecates.) Escape by catching hold of limbs of tree while passing under it Escape by announcing great catastrophe (end of world or the like) Birds escape death by flying away with net

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