μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

  • Italian Novella*Rotunda.
  • general Boccaccio Decameron III No. 1 (Lee 59)
Within the index

Filed under Seduction by disguise or substitution.

1 finer motif beneath it
Messenger from lover to girl-captive in harem poses as a singer who amuses the harem ladies in their apartments
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 anotherTrickster 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 loveSeduction 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
Travels with
Men disguised as women enter convent and seduce impious nuns. (Cf. K1323.)

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