Elopement — Mythoi

Motif

Elopement.

Captives and fugitives. · Escapes and pursuits. · Flights. · view the constellation · filed as R225

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Filed across the traditions

Icelandic *Boberg
Missouri French Carrière
Italian Novella Rotunda
Greek *Frazer Apollodorus II 174 n. 1 (Helen) → on our shelf: The Library (Bibliotheca), APOLLODORI BIBLIOTHECA, ch. 33
India *Thompson-Balys
Buddhist myth Malalasekera II 860.
general *Type 516
general Rösch FFC LXXVII 106
general *Thien Motive 27
general *Boje 110ff.
general *Krappe Revue Hispanique LXXVIII (1930) 489–543. – Irish myth: *Cross

Within the index

Filed under Flights.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Elopement on winged horse Lovers elope to prevent girl's marriage to undesired fiancé

Filed beside it

Heroine's three-fold flight from ball. Cinderella (Cap o' Rushes) after meeting the prince at a ball (church) flees before identification is possible. Repeated three times Unknown knight. (Three days' tournament.) For three days in succession an unknown knight in different armor wins a tournament and escapes without recognition. Finally identified by tokens Girl flees to escape incestuous brother Wife flees from husband. (Cf. P210, T200.) Children leave home because their parents refuse them food Obstacle flight – Atalanta type. Objects are thrown back which the pursuer stops to pick up while the fugitive escapes Fugitive kills pursuer and takes his extraordinary horse to continue flight Fugitives cut support of bridge so that pursuer falls Pursuers aided by magic weather phenomenon Flight on skis; two on one pair Flight carrying friend (girl) on back Fugitives aided by helpful animal. (Cf. B520.) Ships burned to prevent flight Whale-boat. A man is carried across the water on a whale (fish). (He usually deceives the whale as to the nearness of the land or as to hearing thunder. As a consequence the whale runs into the shore or is killed by lightning.) Crane-bridge. Fugitives are helped across a stream by a crane who lets them cross on his leg. The pursuer is either refused assistance or drowned by the crane Flight on a tree, which ogre tries to cut down

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Forest as refuge of eloping lovers. (Cf. R225.) Cave as eloping lovers' refuge. (Cf. R225, T35.) Eloping girl recaptured by parents. (Cf. R225.)

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

Bag of winds. Wind is confined in a bag. Man breaks prohibition against looking into bag and releases winds Transformation: man to swine Transformation: woman to bitch Transformation: man to dove Transformation: man (woman) to almond tree Transformation by drinking Disenchantment from tree form by embrace of lover Moly: magic plant Magic lotus plant. (Cf. D975.1.) Magic drink Magic chair Lotus causes forgetfulness. (Cf. D965.6, D2004.3.)

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