Lightning strikes branch on which man is being hanged. Delay gives him chance to prove his innocence. (Cf. R175.)
Captives and fugitives. · Refuges and recapture. · Refuges. · view the constellation · filed as R341.1
Motif
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.
- U.S.*Baughman.