K1H — Walled up in a hollow.

The character finds himself inside a tree trunk or inside a rock; someone frees him by making a hole from the outside.

Berezkin category: Adventures: Acts of heroes

This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part of group 10, Adventures.

K1A.  A young man or man finds himself in a place where he is unable to move, but which is isolated from the ground: the top of a tree, a rock, a cave, a burrow, an island. This happens through someone else's fault: the antagonist lures or traps the hero, or (less often) leaves him no other option but isolation. After some time, the hero either finds a way to salvation himself, or is saved by someone else (often a bird or animal), or (rarely) undergoes a metamorphosis and no longer returns to his normal life. For texts with a fairy-tale episode in which the hero is sent down to the underworld and abandoned there, see motif K2A.
K1B.  A woman is lured onto a tree, rock or island and left there.
K1c.  A man is abandoned on an island but survives. After some time, the person who abandoned him comes to look at his bones. The abandoned man sails away in his boat, leaving him to die.
K1d.  The hero's wife's brothers try to kill him by leaving him on an island.
K1e.  The character is abandoned on an island or on the other side of a river or sea. See motif K1A.
K1f.  One man traps another, driven by jealousy or the desire to possess his rival's wife. See motifs K1A, K1E, K2A.
K1g.  The hero turns into a deer or creates a deer to gore the relative who sent him into a trap.
K1h.  The character finds himself inside a tree trunk or inside a rock; someone frees him by making a hole from the outside.
K1i.  Near the cliff, at the bottom of the pit, or in the underworld, a tree, reed, or vine grows, which the character uses to descend or climb to the ground.
K1j.  The abandoned one turns into a bird and returns home faster than the one who abandoned him.

This motif has been recorded in 35 traditions: Svans, Western Ojibwa (Chippewa), Eastern Ojibwa (Missisauga, Timagami and other groups in eastern Ontario), Naskapi, Menominee, Potawatomi, Five Nations Iroquois (Seneca, Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga), Winnebago, Arapaho, Pawnee, Wichita; Spiro Mound iconography, Carrier, Shuswap, Thompson (Nlaka'pamux), Lower Chehalis, Upper Chehalis, (Lower) Cowlitz, Tillamook, Kalapuya, Takelma, Oregon Athabaskans: Lower Umpqua, Tututni (incl Joshua), Upper Coquille, Galice, Tolowa, Coos, Shasta; Chimariko, Karok, Hupa, Chilula, Yurok, Caddo, Natchez (incl Avoyel), Cherokee, Maidu, Nisenan, Konkov, Papago, Trio, Napo (Quijo), Kanelo (“Jungle Kechua”), Karijona, Kabiyari, Yukuna (Yucuna), Andoque, Upper Chinook: Wasco, Wishram, Clackamas, Kathlamet