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Motif

Adventures from pursuing enchanted animal (hind, boar, bird). (Guiding Beast.)

Chance and fate. · Accidental encounters. · Experiences leading to adventures. · view the constellation · filed as N774

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“She took the Queen by the hand and led her to heaven, and showed her there her two eldest children, who smiled at her, and were playing with the ball of the world. When the Queen rejoiced thereat, the Virgin Mary said, " Is thy hearty not yet softened? If thou wilt own that thou openedst the, forbidden door, I will give thee back thy two little sons." But for the third time the Queen answered, " No, I did not open the forbidden door."”

— Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 3 · served from our shelf uncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

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Scholars’ trail — 11references

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.

  • IcelandicLagerholm 25–26, Sveinsson FFC LXXXIII xxxiii, *Boberg
  • ItalianBasile Pentamerone I No. 9, *Rotunda
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • New BritainDixon 140.
  • general Types 710 (Grimm No. 3), 425 → on our shelf: Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 3
  • general *Tegethoff 14
  • general **Pschmadt Die Sage von der verfolgten Hinde (Greifswald, 1911)
  • general Dickson 53f.
  • general Clouston Tales I 215
  • general *Fb "hjort" I 625a
  • general Hibbard 244 (Chevalere Assigne). Irish myth: *Cross
Within the index

Filed under Experiences leading to adventures.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Adventure from pursuing thieving birdsAdventures from seeking (lost) domestic beast (bull)Adventures from pursuing animal (not magic)
Filed beside it
Feast as occasion for the beginning of adventures or the arrival of questersKing (prince) lost on hunt has adventuresParting at crossroads to go on adventuresAdventure from following animal to cave (lower world)Race with fairies leads to adventuresLight seen from tree lodging place at night leads to adventuresDropped ball (basket) leads to adventures when recovery is attemptedTaking refuge in a grave leads to adventureHero embarks in rudderless boatMother's parting gift to adventuring son: the two loaves of bread. One for hunger, one for overeatingBroken vessel (calabash, etc.) to be mended leads to adventureShouting after bathing: adventures followAdventures from seeking waterAnchor catching in oratory of submarine monastery leads to adventuresIncidents when wife takes food to husband in field or forestAdventures from pursuing object carried off by river
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Heaven. A blissful upper worldBanishment from heaven for breaking tabuPerson in magic sleep surrounded by protecting hedgeResidence in a treeMagic manifestation at execution proves innocencePunishment: burning aliveAngelsStubbornness

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