Sister rescues brother(s)

Motif

Sister rescues brother(s).

Captives and fugitives. · Rescues. · Rescuers. · view the constellation · filed as R158

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Greco-RomanThe Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK I, ch. III

Scholars’ trail — 4references

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
RumanianSchullerus FFC LXXVII No. 879*
India*Thompson-Balys.
general *Type 707

Within the index

Filed under Rescuers.

Filed beside it

Husband rescues wife Wife rescues husband Parents rescues child. (Cf. S351.)Children rescue parents Brothers rescue brothers Brother rescues sister(s). (Cf. G551.1.)Sisters rescue sisters. (Cf. G551.2.)Lover rescues his lady Rescue by captor's daughter (wife, mother)Rescue by grateful dead man. (Cf. E341.)Rescue by giant. (Cf. G100.)Rescue by saint (holy man). (Cf. R121.6.)Brothers having extraordinary skill rescue princess Master rescues disciple Angels as rescuers Other rescuers

Carried in tale types

The Three Golden Children (previously The Three Golden Sons) · ATU 707256 recorded variants

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