μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Snake king takes fleeing captives across river.

Captives and fugitives. · Escapes and pursuits. · Flights. · view the constellation · filed as R245.2

Filed across the traditions
  • Buddhist myth Malalasekera I 785.
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
Crocodile-boat. Trickster props his jaws apart and leaves him

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