Father hides children from murderous mother. After many years they come forth and she dies of fright.
Captives and fugitives. · Rescues. · Rescuers. · view the constellation · filed as R153.2.1
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 1reference
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.
- general *Type 765.
Within the index
Filed under Father rescues children.
Carried in tale types
- The Mother who Wants to Kill her Children [S12] · ATU 7651 recorded variant