Captivity in mound (cave, hollow hill)

Motif

Captivity in mound (cave, hollow hill).

Captives and fugitives. · Captivity. · Places of captivity. · view the constellation · filed as R45

Scholars’ trail — 8references

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.

Icelandic*Boberg
SpanishBoggs FFC XC 54 No. 405*A
India*Thompson-Balys
ChineseGraham.
general *Type 870
general *BP III 443ff., 450
general *Fb "höj" I 740b, 741
general **Liungman Traditionsstudie över sagan om prinsessani jordkulan (Göteborg, 1925). Irish myth: *Cross

Within the index

Filed under Places of captivity.

3 finer motifs beneath it

Man confined under roots of tree Imprisonment in lion's den Captivity in cave

Filed beside it

Captivity in tower (castle, prison)Captivity in sunken valley Captivity on island Captivity under water Captivity in lower world Other places of captivity

Travels with

Magic rescue of prisoner from mound. (Cf. R45.)Woman hidden in underground chamber or mud cabin. (Cf. R45.)

Carried in tale types

The Princess Confined in the Mound · ATU 8702 recorded variants

wander