μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Girl masked as man wins princess's love.

Deceptions. · Seduction or deceptive marriage. · Seduction by disguise or substitution. · view the constellation · filed as K1322

Filed across the traditions
  • Spanish Espinosa III No. 155
  • Italian Basile Pentamerone IV No. 6
  • India *Thompson-Balys.
  • general Type 514
  • general BP II 87, III 84
Within the index

Filed under Seduction by disguise or substitution.

1 finer motif beneath it
The lovely ascetic (girl in man's clothes) wins love of a rich woman
Filed beside it
Seduction by masking as woman's husband Seduction by wearing coat of invisibility. (Cf. D1361.12.) Seduction by impostor Lover's place in bed usurped by another 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 Seduction by man disguising as woman Man disguised as gardener enters convent and seduces nuns. (Cf. K1321.4.) Seduction by feigned death. The girl comes to the man's wake or funeral Seduction by feigned illness Seduction 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 daughter Disguise as animal to seduce woman
Carried in tale types

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