Rescue from shipwreck

Motif

Rescue from shipwreck.

Captives and fugitives. · Rescues. · Rescue of abandoned or lost persons. · view the constellation · filed as R138

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Greco-RomanThe Metamorphoses of Ovid, Book 7

Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

Icelandic*Boberg
IndiaThompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Rescue of abandoned or lost persons.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Mermaid rescues hero (boy) from shipwreck Gam rescues hero as boy from shipwreck

Filed beside it

Exposed or abandoned child rescued Vanished wife 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 well Exposed children swallowed by earth; vomited up when grown. (Cf. F900.)Abandoned man befriended by a Centaur. (Cf. B21.)

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