Youngest brother rescues his elder brothers. (Cf. L31.)
Captives and fugitives. · Rescues. · Rescuers. · view the constellation · filed as R155.1
Motif
Filed across the traditions
- Missouri French Carrière
- Arabian Burton Nights S V 249
- Jewish *Neuman
- India *Thompson-Balys
- Indonesia DeVries's list No. 182
- Africa (Thonga) Junod 229, (Fjort): Dennett 64 No. 12.
- general *Types 303, 303*, 327**, 471, 551
- general MacCulloch Childhood 353
- general *BP I 503ff., 528ff. Icelandic: *Boberg
- general N. Am. Indian (Arapaho): Dorsey and Kroeber FM V 23ff. Nos. 10, 11, (Dakota): Wissler JAFL XX 199, (Chinook): Boas BBAE XXV 9ff. Nos. 1, 2, (Quinault): Farrand JE II 114 No. 10, (Caddo): Dorsey CI XLI 58ff. Nos. 32, 33, (Klikitat): Jacobs U Wash II 7
Within the index
Filed under Brothers rescue brothers.
Filed beside it
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Carried in tale types
- Brothers Seek Sisters as Wives (previously Six Brothers Seek Seven Sisters as Wives) · ATU 303A 2 recorded variants
- The Bridge to the Otherworld · ATU 471 2 recorded variants
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