Rescue from well — Mythoi

Motif

Rescue from well.

Captives and fugitives. · Rescues. · Rescue of abandoned or lost persons. · view the constellation · filed as R141

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Indic The Mahābhārata , Book 12, Section CCLXXVII
Greek The Iliad , Book 15
Mesoamerican (Maya / Nahua) Popol Vuh, or Book of the Holy Assembly (Guthrie translation, serialized, truncated) , Part 1, Chapter 6
Literary Crystallization Four Plays (The Tempest, A Midsummer-Night's Dream, The Winter's Tale, King Lear) — University Press Shakespeare, ed. Sidney Lee , King Lear Act 4
Greek The Iliad , Book 16

Filed across the traditions

India *Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Rescue of abandoned or lost persons.

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 shipwreck Exposed children swallowed by earth; vomited up when grown. (Cf. F900.) Abandoned man befriended by a Centaur. (Cf. B21.)

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