28 motifs match “escaped”  ·  back to the chapters

• Male rabbit bears young. Female rabbit escaped Noah on ark and drowned. B754.4
• Ash pole appears at doorway several times on day owner's daughter dies. (It is used for coffin rests. The pole has previously mysteriously escaped being used for other purposes.) E767.1
• Fairy escaped by learning and using his secrets. F381.4
• Witch overcome or escaped. G270
• Witch overcome or escaped – miscellaneous. G279
• How the devil's power may be escaped or avoided. G303.16
• By the help of the Virgin Mary the devil may be escaped. G303.16.1
• Devil may be escaped by going to church every day. G303.16.13
• Miscellaneous ways in which the devil may be escaped or his power destroyed. G303.16.19
• Devil escaped by injuring him with silver bullet. (Cf. D1384.5.) G303.16.19.14
• Death sentence escaped by propounding riddle king (judge) cannot solve H542
• Escaped lamb delivers himself to shepherd rather than to slaughter. J217.1
• Execution escaped by use of special permissions granted the condemned. J1181
• Punishment escaped by discomfiting condemner. J1182
• Execution escaped by invoking laws of hospitality. J1183
• Execution escaped by story-telling. Cf. Browning's "Balaustion's Adventure." J1185
• Execution escaped by threatening with malediction. J1189.2
• Cynic is asked if widower should remarry. "One who has just escaped from drowning should not return to sea." J1442.12
• Thief punishes the escaped ox. An ox strays on the rascal's land but escapes from him. The next week he sees the ox yoked up and gives him a beating. The master is astonished. The rascal: "Let me alone; he knows well enough what he has done." J1861
• Thief escapes by leaving animal's severed tail and claiming that the animal has escaped and left his tail. K404
• Tails in ground. Thief steals animals and sticks severed tails into the ground, claiming that animals have escaped underground. K404.1
• Stolen sheep's tails severed and put in tree. Owner made to believe that they have escaped through the air. K404.3
• Detection of theft of bull escaped by putting boots on bull. K412
• Death escaped through disguise, shamming, or substitution. K520
• Substitute in ordeal. An ordeal (usually dangerous) is escaped by deceptively providing a substitute. K528
• Deception into bottle (vessel). Insects (or a spirit) having escaped from a bottle are told that they cannot return. They accept the challenge and go back into the bottle. K717
• Competition in friendship: prisoner and jailor. Officer in charge of prison offers to let his friend escape, though his own life will be forfeited. The friend refuses; tells officer to let king think he has escaped and if the king demands his life the officer can produce the prisoner. King hears of the generosity and forgives the prisoner. P315.1
• Belfagor. The devil frightened by the shrewish wife. A man persuades his shrewish wife to let herself be lowered into a well. When he comes to pull her out he raises a genie (devil) who is glad to escape from the woman. Later he frightens the devil by telling him that his wife has escaped. T251.1.1