μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 7references

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.

  • SpanishBoggs FFC XC 54 No. 400B*
  • Italian NovellaRotunda
  • Missouri FrenchCarrière
  • IndiaThompson-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
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Wolf descends into well in one bucket and rescues fox in the otherFox climbs from pit on wolf's backPrisoner kills his watchers who enter to torture him. EscapesCaptors lured into drowning selvesExaggerated tales about escapesEscape from suspicion of crimeCaptive throws his hat to lions who fight over it while he escapesCaptive throws his shoe at serpent who chokes while he escapesTrickster persuades pursuers to ride in his basket. Leaves basket on limb of tree and escapesHero 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 ropeCutting rope to kill ogre who is climbing the rope to reach his victimSmall animal in mouth of larger causes captor to spit him out. (Defecates.)Escape by catching hold of limbs of tree while passing under itEscape by announcing great catastrophe (end of world or the like)Birds escape death by flying away with net

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