Animal thought to be a person

Motif

Animal thought to be a person.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd misunderstandings. · One thing mistaken for another. · Animal or person mistaken for something else. · view the constellation · filed as J1762

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Indic The Mahābhārata , Book 3, Section CCXII
Depth Commentary Primitive Culture: Researches into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom , Chapter XIV
Reference The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged) , Chapter XLIII XLIII. Dionysus
Reference The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged) , Chapter XLVIII XLVIII. The Corn-Spirit as an Animal
Depth Commentary Primitive Culture: Researches into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom , Chapter XIII

Within the index

Filed under Animal or person mistaken for something else.

10 finer motifs beneath it

Animals mistaken for messengers Goose mistaken for a tailor. In a ghost house he is thought to be a tailor who snips the devil with his scissors Bear on haywagon (on horse) thought to be the preacher Crab caught on tiger's tail thought to be pursuing man Deer thought to be man with basket on head Bees (wasps) mistaken for Jutlanders, etc Dressed up monkey thought to be a nobleman Lobsters mistaken for Norwegians 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 Foolish wife believes goats' heads are human heads

Filed beside it

Animal thought to be object Person thought to be an object Person thought to be animal One person mistaken for another Other creatures with mistaken identity

Carried in tale types

Other Mistaken Identities · ATU 1319* 1 recorded variant

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