μῦθοι Mythoi
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.

  • IndiaThompson-Balys.
Within the index

Filed under Flights.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Wife flees from animal husbandFlight from hated husbandSupernatural wife finds garment stolen from her by husband and leaves him
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 timesUnknown 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 tokensGirl flees to escape incestuous brotherElopementChildren leave home because their parents refuse them foodObstacle flight – Atalanta type. Objects are thrown back which the pursuer stops to pick up while the fugitive escapesFugitive kills pursuer and takes his extraordinary horse to continue flightFugitives cut support of bridge so that pursuer fallsPursuers aided by magic weather phenomenonFlight on skis; two on one pairFlight carrying friend (girl) on backFugitives aided by helpful animal. (Cf. B520.)Ships burned to prevent flightWhale-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 craneFlight on a tree, which ogre tries to cut down
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Husband and wifeMarried life

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