Motif
Abandonment on a barren height followed by rescue
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A motif of the The Hero's Journey family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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islamicate folklore
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The Arabian Nights Entertainments The Arabian Nights Entertainments; lines 5485-5587 confidence: high
The brother serves the Barmecide, is dispossessed after the benefactor's death, joins a Mecca caravan, is captured by Bedouins, enslaved, abandoned on a high barren mountain, and rescued by the barber.
The brother is left on the top of a high barren mountain and later rescued by the barber.
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