μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 8references

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.

  • Italian Novella*Rotunda
  • JewishNeuman, bin Gorion Born Judas I 364
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • IndonesiaCoster-Wijsman 33 No. 11
  • N. Am. Indian (Klikitat)Jacobs U Wash II 31.
  • general *Penzer II 45 n. 4, III 126f.
  • general Boccaccio Decameron III No. 6 (Lee 79)
  • general Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 30
Within the index

Filed under Seduction by disguise or substitution.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Seduction by masking as woman's husband: "Why – you have just left!" After the seduction the husband comes and the wife shows surpriseTrickster kills husband and puts on his skin so as to seduce wifeHusband's twin brother mistaken by woman for her husband
Filed beside it
Seduction by wearing coat of invisibility. (Cf. D1361.12.)Seduction by impostorLover's place in bed usurped by anotherTrickster shifts married couples in bed. Old man married to young woman and young man married to old woman. The shift is satisfactory to the young coupleSeduction by man disguising as womanGirl masked as man wins princess's loveMan disguised as gardener enters convent and seduces nuns. (Cf. K1321.4.)Seduction by feigned death. The girl comes to the man's wake or funeralSeduction by feigned illnessSeduction by feigned stupidity. Cautious farmer seeks laborer who knows nothing about sex. Trickster makes silly explanation of copulation of animals. When admitted into service, seduces both farmer's wife and daughterDisguise as animal to seduce woman

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