Image in mirror mistaken for picture

Motif

Image in mirror mistaken for picture.

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 J1795

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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.

general England, U.S.: *Baughman.

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Filed under Shadow mistaken for substance.

1 finer motif beneath it

Foolish demon sees his reflection in trickster's mirror and is convinced he has been captured

Filed beside it

Numskull thinks his shadow is a man pursuing him Shadow mistaken for thief: is beaten Monkey seeing tiger attack his shadow is frightened so that he falls from tree Reflection in water thought to be the original of the thing reflected Picture mistaken for original Mask mistaken for face Statue mistaken for living original. (Cf. K1840.)Moonlight thought to be substance

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