Dead man is thought to be alive

Motif

Dead man is thought to be alive.

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 J1769.2

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Indic The Mahābhārata , Book 3, Section LXVIII
Literary Crystallization Four Plays (The Tempest, A Midsummer-Night's Dream, The Winter's Tale, King Lear) — University Press Shakespeare, ed. Sidney Lee , King Lear Act 4
Indic The Mahābhārata , Book 8, Section 76
North American Indigenous Zuni Folk Tales , Tale 30

Filed across the traditions

U.S. *Baughman.

Within the index

Filed under Other creatures with mistaken identity.

1 finer motif beneath it

Dead mistaken for the living. Man with abhorrence for corpse sleeps with one thinking it alive. (Cf. H1410.)

Filed beside it

Giant thought to be a hill Fool lays his hand on demon in the dark, believing it is male goat he has come to steal

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