Miraculous rescue

Motif

Miraculous rescue.

Captives and fugitives. · Rescues. · Rescue of captive. · view the constellation · filed as R122

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Greco-RomanThe Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK III, ch. XIII

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

Irish mythCross.

Within the index

Filed under Rescue of captive.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Prisoner whirled away in blaze of fire Prisoner carried off in cloud. (Cf. D2121.7.)

Filed beside it

Goddess delivers and restores goods of man thrown into jail Rescue of captive maiden. (Cf. H1385.1, R10.1.)Magic rescue of prisoner from mound. (Cf. R45.)King transformed to parrot frees captured parrots. (Cf. D641.)Rescue from robbers' den. (Cf. R111.1.2.)Rescue from being burned. (Cf. R175.)Means of rescue from prison Boon granted after prayer and widow's son is released from prison

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