Vanished wife rescued — Mythoi

Motif

Vanished wife rescued.

Captives and fugitives. · Rescues. · Rescue of abandoned or lost persons. · view the constellation · filed as R133

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Filed under Rescue of abandoned or lost persons.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Hero finds his vanished wife and disenchants her Lost wife restored by conjurer

Filed beside it

Exposed or abandoned child rescued Abandoned children (wife, etc.) find way back by clue (bread-crumb, grain, pebble, etc.). They have dropped the objects while being led away Mermaid rescues heroine who has been thrown overboard. (Cf. B81.) Rescue from shipwreck Rescue from well Exposed children swallowed by earth; vomited up when grown. (Cf. F900.) Abandoned man befriended by a Centaur. (Cf. B21.)

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