Crocodile-boat. Trickster props his jaws apart and leaves him

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Crocodile-boat. Trickster props his jaws apart and leaves him.

Captives and fugitives. · Escapes and pursuits. · Flights. · view the constellation · filed as R245.1

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 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.)

Filed beside it

Snake king takes fleeing captives across river

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