Man disguised as woman admitted to women's quarters: seduction — Mythoi

Motif

Man disguised as woman admitted to women's quarters: seduction.

Deceptions. · Seduction or deceptive marriage. · Seduction by disguise or substitution. · view the constellation · filed as K1321.1

Attested across traditions

North American Indigenous Tales of the North American Indians , Tale 38 receipt

Filed across the traditions

Italian Novella *Rotunda
Greek Frazer Apollodorus II 73 n. 2 (Achilles) → on our shelf: The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK III, ch. XIII
India *Thompson-Balys, Ruben FFC CXXXIII 41.
general *Types 516, 1542
general Rösch FFC LXXVII 109
general *Fischer-Bolte 215
general *Krappe Balor 12 n. 42
general Penzer I 47n., 48n.
general Herrmann Saxo II 239, 493, 641

Within the index

Filed under Seduction by man disguising as woman.

3 finer motifs beneath it

Man disguised as pregnant woman admitted to girl's bed Seducer successfully disguised as washerwoman for fifteen years. Finally exposed Man wishes to learn and gains entrance to learned girl's presence in woman's disguise

Filed beside it

Man disguised as woman abducts princess Man disguised as woman courted (married) by another man Men disguised as women enter convent and seduce impious nuns. (Cf. K1323.)

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Man disguised as woman carried into princess's room: marries her. (Cf. K1321.1.)

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

Trickster's burnt flesh becomes gum on trees Transformation: man to wild beast (mammal) Transformation: man to tiger Transformation: man to cuttlefish Transformation: man to serpent (snake). (Cf. B642.1.) Repeated transformation. Transformation into one form after another Transformation to be put in food-bag Transformation to seduce Magic treasure animal killed. (Goose that laid the golden egg) Magic meat Magic garment (robe, tunic) Magic sword

Carried in tale types

The Clever Boy · ATU 1542 1 recorded variant

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