μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Trickster 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 couple.

Deceptions. · Seduction or deceptive marriage. · Seduction by disguise or substitution. · view the constellation · filed as K1318

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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.

  • general *BP III 394 (3)
  • general Anderson FFC XLII 364
  • general Köhler-Bolte II 305ff.
Within the index

Filed under Seduction by disguise or substitution.

Filed beside it
Seduction by masking as woman's husbandSeduction by wearing coat of invisibility. (Cf. D1361.12.)Seduction by impostorLover's place in bed usurped by anotherSeduction 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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