μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Formula for girl fleeing: behind me night, etc. "Behind me night and before me day that no one shall see where I go."

Captives and fugitives. · Escapes and pursuits. · Flights. · view the constellation · filed as R255

Cited in the index
  • general *Type 510B
  • general *BP II 46
  • general Ainu: Ikeda (Type 175).
Within the index

Filed under Flights.

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.) 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
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