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

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

Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

Missouri FrenchCarrière
JapaneseIkeda.
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 327A12 recorded variants

wander