The constellation
J1762 Animal thought to be a person
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- Animals mistaken for messengers · J1762.0.1 entry
- Goose mistaken for a tailor. In a ghost house he is thought to be a tailor who snips the devil with his scissors · J1762.1 entry
- Bear on haywagon (on horse) thought to be the preacher · J1762.2 entry
- Crab caught on tiger's tail thought to be pursuing man · J1762.3 entry
- Deer thought to be man with basket on head · J1762.4 entry
- Bees (wasps) mistaken for Jutlanders, etc · J1762.5 entry
- Dressed up monkey thought to be a nobleman · J1762.6 entry
- Lobsters mistaken for Norwegians · J1762.7 entry
- Bear mistaken for a foreigner. The strong man meets a bear in the forest, takes it for a German and struggles with it. Having strangled the bear, fears he has killed a man · J1762.8 entry
- Foolish wife believes goats' heads are human heads · J1762.9 entry
carried in tale type
- Other Mistaken Identities · ATU 1319*