Crumb (grain) trail eaten by birds. Lost persons cannot find way back — Mythoi

Motif

Crumb (grain) trail eaten by birds. Lost persons cannot find way back.

Captives and fugitives. · Rescues. · Rescue of abandoned or lost persons. · view the constellation · filed as R135.1

Filed across the traditions

Missouri French Carrière
Japanese Ikeda.
general *Types 327, 431

Within the index

Filed under Abandoned children (wife, etc.) find way back by clue (bread-crumb, grain, pebble, etc.). They have dropped the objects while being led away.

1 finer motif beneath it

Feathers left to mark trail blown away by wind

Filed beside it

Stolen wife makes trail of speaking spittle for husband. Spittle speaks and directs him Trail of grain (Cf.ds). (Cf. R267.) Trail of jewels Trail of shreds of dress Trail of thread Trail of ashes Trail of flowers

Carried in tale types

Hansel and Gretel · ATU 327A 12 recorded variants

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