Other creatures with mistaken identity

Motif

Other creatures with mistaken identity.

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

Within the index

Filed under Animal or person mistaken for something else.

3 finer motifs beneath it

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

Filed beside it

Animal thought to be object Animal thought to be a person Person thought to be an object Person thought to be animal One person mistaken for another

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