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.

  • IndiaThompson-Balys.
  • general *Child I 137–41
  • general Nouvelles Récréations No. 54
Within the index

Filed under Seduction by disguise or substitution.

10 finer motifs beneath it
Serving-man in his master's placeLeper intercepts letter and takes paramour's place with princessVengeful paramours send syphilitic man to substitute in woman's bedMan caught running by guards has to tell his destination. One of the guards substitutes for him with his sweetheartWoman substitutes for her daughter in the darkUse of drugs to usurp lover's placeWoman mistakes passer-by for lover. Substitution in the darkMoorish (black) girl substituted for mistress (in the dark)Man intercepts love letter and takes lover's place in elopementDevil comes to rendezvous instead of woman's lover
Filed beside it
Seduction by masking as woman's husbandSeduction by wearing coat of invisibility. (Cf. D1361.12.)Seduction by impostorTrickster 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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