μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Humble disguise. (Cap o' Rushes, Peau d'âne Allerleirauh.) Usually in rough clothing. (Cf. K521.4.3, K1812, K1816.)

Deceptions. · Deception through shams. · Deception by disguise or illusion. · Deception by disguise. · view the constellation · filed as K1815

Filed across the traditions
  • Icelandic Boberg
  • Irish myth *Cross
  • English Wells 9 (King Horn)
  • Italian Novella Rotunda
  • Greek *Frazer Apollodorus II 226 n. 2 → on our shelf: The Library (Bibliotheca), APOLLODORI BIBLIOTHECA, ch. 33
  • Japanese Ikeda
  • N. Am. Indian (Ojibwa) Laidlaw Ontario Archeological Report (1918) 36 No. 111, (California): Gayton and Newman 95.
  • general Type 510B
  • general BP II 45ff.
  • general **Cox passim
  • general Cosquin Etudes 4f.
Within the index

Filed under Deception by disguise.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Disguise with hood dropping low over the face Return home in humble disguise Ugly disguise
Filed beside it
Disguise by putting on clothes (carrying accoutrements) of certain person Dog procures disguise from magician to frighten tiger Lover disguised as other knight in order to reach sweetheart Gods (saints) in disguise visit mortals King in disguise Disguised husband visits his wife Woman in disguise wooed by her faithless husband Disguise as menial Disguise as wanderer Disguise as sick man Disguise by changing bodily appearance Animal disguises as human being. (Cf. K1825.1.5.) Man disguises as animal Disguise as layman. Priest disguises as layman Disguise as professional man Disguise as churchman (cleric)
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
King in disguise Disguise as menial Escape in humble disguise. (Cap o' Rushes.)
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Bag of winds. Wind is confined in a bag. Man breaks prohibition against looking into bag and releases winds Transformation: man to swine Transformation: woman to bitch Transformation: man to dove Transformation: man (woman) to almond tree Transformation by drinking Disenchantment from tree form by embrace of lover Moly: magic plant Magic lotus plant. (Cf. D975.1.) Magic drink Magic chair Lotus causes forgetfulness. (Cf. D965.6, D2004.3.)
Carried in tale types

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