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Group No. 159


Letter

R. Captive and fugitives

Group No.

R100 – R199

Group name

Rescues

Description

R116. Rescue from robbers’ den. (Cf. R111.1.2.) *Type 851; BP I 188ff.; French Canadian: Sister Marie Ursule; Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys.
 
R117. Rescue from being burned. (Cf. R175.) Icelandic: Lagerholm 117 – 18, *Boberg; Jewish: *Neuman.
 
R121.6.2. Locks marvelously open for person. Irish myth: Cross (F1088.4); Jewish: Neuman.
 
R131.0.2. Miraculous rescue of all exposed children. Jewish: Neuman.
 
R131.7. Merchant rescues abandoned child. (Cf. N851.) Dickson 104 n. 13; Jewish: *Neuman.
 
R131.11.1. Princess rescues abandoned child. Sparnaay 33; Dickson 37, 170; Jewish: *Neuman; China: Eberhard FFC CXX 99ff. No. 58, FFC CXXVIII 76f. No. 34.
 
R131.11.2. King rescues abandoned child. Dickson 170 n. 24; Italian: Basile Pentamerone III No. 2; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys.
 
R131.16. Angel rescues abandoned child. Jewish: Neuman.
 
R142. Exposed children swallowed by earth; vomited up when grown. (Cf. F900.) Jewish: Neuman.
 
R152. Wife rescues husband. Type 316; Missouri French: Carrière; Greek: Grote I 462f.; Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys.
 
R153.3.6. Father hides son from Satan. Jewish: Neuman.
 
R155.1. Youngest brother rescues his elder brothers. (Cf. L31.) *Types 303, 303*, 327**, 471, 551; MacCulloch Childhood 353; *BP I 503ff., 528ff. – Icelandic: *Boberg; Missouri French: Carrière; Arabian: Burton Nights S V 249; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Indonesia: DeVries’s list No. 182; N. A. Indian (Arapaho): Dorsey and Kroeber FM V 23ff. Nos. 10, 11, (Dakota): Wissler JAFL XX 199, (Chinook): Boas BBAE XXV 9ff. Nos. 1, 2, (Quinault): Farrand JE II 114 No. 10, (Caddo): Dorsey CI XLI 58ff. Nos. 32, 33, (Klikitat): Jacobs U Wash II 7; Africa (Thonga): Junod 229, (Fjort): Dennett 64 No. 12.
 
R168. Angels as rescuers. Irish myth: Cross (R169.12); Jewish: *Neuman.
 
R175. Rescue at the stake. (Cf. R151.2, R154.1.1, R164.2, R215.) *Dickson 78 n. 40; *Boje 116ff.; English: Wells 97 (Chevalere Assigne); Icelandic: *Boberg; Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys; West Indies: Flowers 572.
 
R176. Executioner miraculously blinded: condemned man saved. Jewish: *bin Gorion Born Judas@2 I 39, 361, Neuman.
 
R181. Demon enclosed in bottle released. *Type 331; *BP II 414ff., IV 321; Jewish: Neuman, **Levi Revue des Études Juives LXXXV 137; India: *Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Ikeda.
 
R185.1. Mortal deceives Angel of Death. (Cf. V233.) Jewish: Neuman.

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