μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

  • Irish myth*Cross
  • West IndiesFlowers 536.
Within the index

Filed under Deception into humiliating position – miscellaneous.

5 finer motifs beneath it
Threat to tell of amorous intrigue used as blackmailLovers observed in intrigue make absurd excuses. (Afraid of ghosts, have chill, etc.)Amorous intrigue exposed and faithless husband humiliatedAdulteress tells lover "I can see the whole world." Hidden shepherd asks "Can you see my lost calves (ass)?"The Lord above will provide. A youth and maid come under tree. "Who shall provide for our child?" "He above (God) will take care of it." The man in the tree: "I will do nothing of the kind!"
Filed beside it
Trickster rides dupe horseback. Usually by feigning sickness he induces the dupe to carry him and then boasts that the dupe always acts as his horsePriest trapped in window and humiliatedHolding up the rock. Trickster makes dupe believe that he is holding up a great rock and induces him to hold it for a while. (Sometimes steals the dupe's goods.)Holding down the hat. Dupe persuaded to guard hat supposed to cover something valuable. It covers a pile of dung. (Dupe's goods are sometimes stolen.)The general hatches out an egg. The page induces the general to take his place in sitting on the eggs. Then he calls the king to lookPerson hypnotized into believing himself transformedMan falsely reported insane. No one will believe himMan carried and dropped in mid-streamMan abed with his wife is frightened away by an intruder who steals his clothesAbbess puts priest's trousers on her head. Suddenly called up while abed with the priest, she thinks to put on her coif. Discomfited by nuns whom she has denounced for incontinenceDiscovery of abbot's (abbess's) incontinence brings permission to monks (nuns) to do likewiseGirl who cannot keep silent thereby provokes her rival to admit unchastityWoman draws a pelt to her instead of her husband. A woman asks of her husband a hair which will magically draw him to her. He gives her a hair from a peltRascals pull off judge's breeches and leave him exposedMock initiation for dupeKing induced to kiss horse's rump: trickster then threatens to tell

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