Person thought to be animal.
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 J1765
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
- IndicThe Mahābhārata, Book 3, Section CCXII
- ReferenceThe Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged), Chapter XLIIIXLIII. Dionysus
- ReferenceThe Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged), Chapter XLVIIIXLVIII. The Corn-Spirit as an Animal
- Depth CommentaryPrimitive Culture: Researches into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom, Chapter XIII
Scholars’ trail — 1reference
The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.
- Jewish*Neuman.
Within the index
Filed under Animal or person mistaken for something else.
2 finer motifs beneath it
Filed beside it
Carried in tale types
- Other Mistaken Identities · ATU 1319*1 recorded variant