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

Motif

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.

Captives and fugitives. · Escapes and pursuits. · Flights. · view the constellation · filed as R246

““First you killed a person, and now you are eating your own children’s hands.” She ran after the children who had been taunting her. When she came near them she called in a pleasant voice, “Well, come home.” They ran up on a ridge and barely escaped being caught. Finally they came to a place where Crane was fishing by the river. “Grand- father, put your neck across and let us go over on It.”

— Tales of the North American Indians, Tale 58 · served from our shelf receiptuncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

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North American IndigenousTales of the North American Indians, Tale 58 receipt

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.

N. Am. Indian*Thompson Tales 340 n. 227.

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Filed under Flights.

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Stone bridge appears for fugitives. Disappears and drowns pursuers

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 Elopement 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.)Flight on a tree, which ogre tries to cut down

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Relative's flesh eaten unwittingly

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