μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Mask mistaken for face.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd misunderstandings. · One thing mistaken for another. · Shadow mistaken for substance. · view the constellation · filed as J1793

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“He ad- vised the children to run away, but they did not obey. When they saw the gum, they stepped up to the Snanaik and asked her to give them some. The Snanaik gave a piece of gum to all the children, and when she saw Anutkoats, who was advising the children to return home, she took him and threw him into the basket which she was carrying on her back. Then she took all the other children and threw them on top of him into her basket.”

Tales of the North American Indians, Tale 71 · served from our shelf  receiptuncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

Attested across traditions
Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

  • general Jacobs Aesop 204 No. 20
  • general Wienert FFC LVI 75 (ET 405), 124 (ST 333)
  • general Halm Aesop No. 47.
Within the index

Filed under Shadow mistaken for substance.

Filed beside it
Numskull thinks his shadow is a man pursuing himShadow mistaken for thief: is beatenMonkey seeing tiger attack his shadow is frightened so that he falls from treeReflection in water thought to be the original of the thing reflectedPicture mistaken for originalStatue mistaken for living original. (Cf. K1840.)Image in mirror mistaken for pictureMoonlight thought to be substance
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Person comes to lifePerson falls into ogre's powerOgre carries victim in bag (basket)Bodies of victims in front of ogre's houseStatue mistaken for living original. (Cf. K1840.)Contest won by magicCaptor's bag filled with animals or objects while captives escapeFalse beauty-doctor. The trickster pretends to make the dupe beautiful. Injures himSham physicianFugitive discovered by reflection in waterShepherdess born of red and blue egg

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