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Motifs — first 20 of 46
- 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
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