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Fugitive discovered by reflection in water.

Captives and fugitives. · Refuges and recapture. · Recapture of fugitive. · view the constellation · filed as R351

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“He ad- vised the children to run away, but they did not obey. When they saw the gum, they stepped up to the Snanaik and asked her to give them some. The Snanaik gave a piece of gum to all the children, and when she saw Anutkoats, who was advising the children to return home, she took him and threw him into the basket which she was carrying on her back. Then she took all the other children and threw them on top of him into her basket.”

Tales of the North American Indians, Tale 71 · served from our shelf  receiptuncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

Attested across traditions
Scholars’ trail — 12references

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.

  • ChineseGraham
  • JapaneseIkeda
  • IndonesiaDeVries's list No. 212, Dixon 140 n. 21, 226 n. 33
  • Melanesiaibid. 226 n. 33
  • N. Am. Indian*Thompson Tales 352 n. 270.
  • general *Type 408
  • general *Cox 503
  • general *Cosquin Contes indiens 85ff.
  • general *Köhler-Bolte I 281
  • general Köhler-Bolte Zs. f. Vksk. VI 64 to Gonzenbach No. 14
  • general Malone PMLA XLIII 399. India: *Thompson-Balys
  • general New Hebrides, Torres Straits, New Guinea: ibid. 140 n. 21
Within the index

Filed under Recapture of fugitive.

1 finer motif beneath it
Milk drops from woman's breast on tiger's leg and reveals her hiding place in tree
Filed beside it
Lovers fleeing from slavery are recaptured. (Cf. R211.4.)Eloping girl recaptured by parents. (Cf. R225.)
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Person comes to lifePerson falls into ogre's powerOgre carries victim in bag (basket)Bodies of victims in front of ogre's houseMask mistaken for faceStatue mistaken for living original. (Cf. K1840.)Contest won by magicCaptor's bag filled with animals or objects while captives escapeFalse beauty-doctor. The trickster pretends to make the dupe beautiful. Injures himSham physicianShepherdess born of red and blue egg
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