μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
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.

  • IcelandicHerrmann Saxo II 239, Boberg
  • Italian NovellaRotunda
  • N. Am. Indian*Thompson Tales 305 n. 109r.
Within the index

Filed under Seduction by impostor.

4 finer motifs beneath it
Girl persuaded to sit on certain plant: seduced. Man as sham doctor tells her how to heal her burnt groinsSeduction by sham process of retrieving lost gemSeduction by sham process of repairing vaginaSeduction by pretending to give childless man's wife medicine. When husband comes at cockcrow as he was told, trickster says he came too late and they must do it again
Filed beside it
Seduction by posing as a god. (Cf. K1301.)Seduction by posing as magician. (Sham incantation, etc.)Seduction by posing as a relativeSeduction by posing as noblemanSeduction by posing as holy man (churchman)Seduction by posing as teacher or instructorSeduction upon false promise of marriageSeduction by offering protection against non-existing dangerSeduction by posing as beggarSeduction by posing as leperSeduction by posing as merchantSeduction by masking as soldierSeduction: weaver posing as king

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