The constellation
K1837 Disguise of woman in man's clothes. (Cf. K1825.)
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The same sky, in words
filed under
- Deception by disguise · K1810 entry
beneath it
- Boasting coward exposed by wife who masks as highwayman and robs him · K1837.1 entry
- Woman disguised as pilgrim engages lover in conversation and learns of his faithlessness. (Cf. K1817.2.) · K1837.2 entry
- Repentant nurse disguises as hermit · K1837.3 entry
- Girl in man's clothes avenges her father · K1837.4 entry
- Wife disguises as a man and outwits landlord of inn when he tries same trick he has played on her husband to get all of his goods, etc · K1837.5 entry
- Disguise of woman as a soldier · K1837.6 entry
- Virgin living disguised as a man and unrecognized in a monastery becomes abbot (St. Eugenia) · K1837.7 entry
- Woman in male disguise made king · K1837.8 entry
keeps company
- Uncharitableness punished. (Cf. Q494.1.1, Q552.3.0.1, Q571.2, Q572.2, Q574.2, Q585.1, Q595.3.) · Q286 entry
- Banishment because of disobedience. Maiden wants to become nun and not marry. (Cf. Q325.) · Q431.3 entry
- God refuses king a son on account of his many wars. (Cf. Q305.) · Q553.3.1 entry
- Murder by strangling. See references to Q424 · S113 entry
- Ceremony of the proclamation of a Buddha · V88 entry
- Blind god. Hödhr · A128.1 entry
- Goddess of mercy · A483.1 entry
- Animal as servant to man · B292 entry
- Animal as domestic servant · B292.2 entry
- Helpful tiger · B431.3 entry
cross-ref
carried in tale type
- The Forsaken Fianc'e: Service as Menial · ATU 884
- Crystal Palace (previously The Princess from the Tower Recovers her Husband) · ATU 891A
- The Prince as Bird · ATU 432
- The Basil Maiden · ATU 879
- The Innocent Slandered Maiden · ATU 883A
- The Weeping Bitch · ATU 1515
- The Vanished Husband (previously Vanished Husband Learned of by Keeping Inn (Bath-house) · ATU 425D
- The Shift of Sex · ATU 514
- A Young Woman Disguised as a Man is Wooed by the Queen (previously The Court Physician) · ATU 514**
- The Princess and the Magic Shell · ATU 570A
- Abduction at the Rendezvous · ATU 861A
- A Man Boasts of his Wife · ATU 880
Thompson cites
- Myths & Legends of China · Chapter X