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

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“Aeneas, son of Anchises, and with him Archelochus and Acamas, sons of Antenor, and Theanus, leaders of ‘the Dardanians; of the Thracians, Acamas, son of Eusorus ; of the Cicones, Euphemus, son of Troezenus ; of the Paeonians, Pyraechmes; of the Paphlagonians, Pylaemenes, son of Bilsates; from Zelia, Pandarus, son of Lycaon ; from Adrastia, Adrastus and Amphius, sons of Merops; from Arisbe, Asius, son of Hyrtacus ; from Larissa,…”

— The Library (Bibliotheca), APOLLODORI BIBLIOTHECA, ch. 33 · served from our shelf uncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

On our shelf — the index’s citations, resolved to served chapters
Scholars’ trail — 11references

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.

  • IcelandicBoberg
  • Irish myth*Cross
  • EnglishWells 9 (King Horn)
  • Italian NovellaRotunda
  • Greek*Frazer Apollodorus II 226 n. 2 → on our shelf: The Library (Bibliotheca), APOLLODORI BIBLIOTHECA, ch. 33
  • JapaneseIkeda
  • 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 faceReturn home in humble disguiseUgly disguise
Filed beside it
Disguise by putting on clothes (carrying accoutrements) of certain personDog procures disguise from magician to frighten tigerLover disguised as other knight in order to reach sweetheartGods (saints) in disguise visit mortalsKing in disguiseDisguised husband visits his wifeWoman in disguise wooed by her faithless husbandDisguise as menialDisguise as wandererDisguise as sick manDisguise by changing bodily appearanceAnimal disguises as human being. (Cf. K1825.1.5.)Man disguises as animalDisguise as layman. Priest disguises as laymanDisguise as professional manDisguise as churchman (cleric)
Travels with
King in disguiseDisguise as menialEscape 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 windsTransformation: man to swineTransformation: woman to bitchTransformation: man to doveTransformation: man (woman) to almond treeTransformation by drinkingDisenchantment from tree form by embrace of loverMoly: magic plantMagic lotus plant. (Cf. D975.1.)Magic drinkMagic chairLotus causes forgetfulness. (Cf. D965.6, D2004.3.)
Carried in tale types

wander