μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Idol cracks open to grant refuge to fugitive in answer to prayer; then closes again.

Captives and fugitives. · Refuges and recapture. · Refuges. · view the constellation · filed as R325.2

Filed across the traditions
  • India Thompson-Balys.
Within the index

Filed under Church (altar) as refuge.

Filed beside it
Devil chases ghost of wicked man until he puts his head into chapel window. (Cf. E754.) Saint offers murderer refuge

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