46 motifs match “pursuer”  ·  back to the chapters

• Animal saves man from pursuer. B523
• Great clam fights hero's pursuer. B523.3
• Transformation to elude pursuers. (Cf. D671, D672.) D642.7
• Transformation flight. Fugitives transforms themselves in order to escape detection by the pursuer. D671
• Fugitive transforms self to stone. Thrown to safety by pursuer. D671.0.1
• Reversed transformation flight. Transformed pursuer. Koryak: Jochelson JE VI 363. D671.1
• Obstacle flight. Fugitives throw objects behind them which magically become obstacles in pursuer's path. D672
• Magic objects as decoy for pursuer. Date palms are dropped which are transformed into animals which the pursuer stops to pick up. D672.1
• Magic thorn-tree attacks pursuer and helps fugitive. D1393.5
• Man made to appear to pursuers as woman carrying babe. D2031.6.1
• Son made to appear to pursuers as spinning wheel, buck, and hog. D2031.6.2
• Pursuers confused in other ways by magic illusion. D2031.6.4
• Wizard sells charm to raise rainstorm to enable eloping couple to escape pursuers. D2143.1.10
• Beaver sacrifices scrotum to save life. Cuts it off and leaves it for pursuers. J351.1
• Thief tells his pursuer that the thief has gone to heaven by way of a tree. While the man lies on the ground and looks up, the thief steals his horse. K341.9
• Thief guards his pursuer's horse while the latter follows a false trail. Steals the horse. K346.1
• Thieves stretch chain across road and evade pursuers. K413
• Woman covers fleeing man with placenta of goat and with blood to convince pursuers she has just given birth and thus prevents their capturing him. K522.1.1
• Fugitive disguises successively in different forms and deceives pursuer into self-injury. K533.1
• Escape from pursuers by pretending to be one of them. K579.3.1
• Pursuer persuaded to sing while captive escapes. K606.0.1
• Pursuer persuaded to put oil on a tree when he wants to climb after fugitives. K619.2
• Trickster persuades pursuers to play fatal deceptive game. K619.3
• Confederate sings and delays pursuers so that fugitive escapes. K643
• Fugitive's confederate misdirects pursuer. K646
• Bird's call attracts attention of pursuer so that trickster escapes. K648
• One animal swallows another to save him from pursuer. K649.1.1
• Trickster persuades pursuers to ride in his basket. Leaves basket on limb of tree and escapes. K676
• Pursuer persuaded to take fugitive's place in supposed swing. Hanged. (Cf. K852.) K845
• Man leads pursuers to edge of thin ice, swerves suddenly; they fall through the ice. K893.1
• The lovers as pursuer and fugitive. The wife is visited by two gallants. When the husband approaches, one goes out with drawn sword; the other hides in the house. She convinces her husband that she has given refuge to a fugitive. K1517.1
• Fugitive in tree urinates from fright: pursuers think it rain and leave. N696
• Runaway ox leads pursuer to burial place of Adam and Eve. N774.3.1
• Obstacle flight – Atalanta type. Objects are thrown back which the pursuer stops to pick up while the fugitive escapes. R231
• Fugitive cuts tail of camel caught by pursuer and it turns into grass. R231.2
• Helpful animal's tail cut off so pursuers who hang onto tail are shaken off into river. R231.2.1
• Fugitive kills pursuer and takes his extraordinary horse to continue flight. R233
• Fugitives cut support of bridge so that pursuer falls. R235
• Pursuers aided by magic weather phenomenon. R236
• Fugitive has magic wind against him, pursuer with him (caused by goddess). R236.4
• Pursuer misdirected by animal to help fugitive. R243.1
• Crane-bridge. Fugitives are helped across a stream by a crane who lets them cross on his leg. The pursuer is either refused assistance or drowned by the crane. R246
• Stone bridge appears for fugitives. Disappears and drowns pursuers. R246.1
• Pursuer (witch, giant) pulls out tail of fugitive's horse. R265
• Pursuer follows successive night campfires (each brighter than last). R272
• King escapes pursuers through hollow tree in his hall. R311.2