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Motif

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

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

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Scholars’ trail — 13references

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.

  • ItalianBasile Pentamerone V No. 8
  • JapaneseIkeda
  • Indonesia*Dixon 227 n. 35, DeVries's list No. 147
  • PhilippineFansler MAFLS XII 442
  • S. Am. Indian (Warrau)Métraux RMLP XXXIII 145
  • Africa (Kaffir)Theal 120.
  • general *Types 327, 431, 620, 955
  • general *BP I 115ff., 124, 370
  • general Köhler-Bolte I 134
  • general *Penzer III 104 n. 2
  • general Fb "ært" III 1153b, "gryn" IV 187a
  • general *Saintyves Perrault 310. – Irish myth: Cross
  • general Lkuñgen: Hill-Tout JAI XXXVII 334
Within the index

Filed under Rescue of abandoned or lost persons.

8 finer motifs beneath it
Stolen wife makes trail of speaking spittle for husband. Spittle speaks and directs himTrail of grain (Cf.ds). (Cf. R267.)Trail of jewelsTrail of shreds of dressTrail of threadTrail of ashesTrail of flowersCrumb (grain) trail eaten by birds. Lost persons cannot find way back
Filed beside it
Exposed or abandoned child rescuedVanished wife rescuedMermaid rescues heroine who has been thrown overboard. (Cf. B81.)Rescue from shipwreckRescue from wellExposed children swallowed by earth; vomited up when grown. (Cf. F900.)Abandoned man befriended by a Centaur. (Cf. B21.)
Travels with
Fugitives trailed by mustard seeds (ashes) dropped from bag. (Cf. R135.)
Carried in tale types

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