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
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
- IndicThe Mahābhārata, Book 3, Section LXVIII
- Literary CrystallizationFour Plays (The Tempest, A Midsummer-Night's Dream, The Winter's Tale, King Lear) — University Press Shakespeare, ed. Sidney Lee, King Lear Act 4
- IndicThe Mahābhārata, Book 8, Section 76
- North American IndigenousZuni Folk Tales, Tale 30
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.
- U.S.*Baughman.
Within the index
Filed under Other creatures with mistaken identity.
1 finer motif beneath it
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