Menial disguise of princess's lover — Mythoi

Motif

Menial disguise of princess's lover.

Deceptions. · Deception through shams. · Deception by disguise or illusion. · Deception by disguise. · view the constellation · filed as K1816.0.3

Filed across the traditions

Icelandic *Boberg
Italian Novella *Rotunda
Tuamotu Stimson MS (z-G. 13/10, 221, 343).
general *Types 301, 314, 900
general *BP I 446
general Child V 109ff., 116ff., 305a
general Wells 14 (The Lay of Havelok) 19 (Sir Beves of Hamtoun), 147 (Ipomadon)

Within the index

Filed under Disguise as menial.

1 finer motif beneath it

Hero in menial disguise at heroine's wedding

Filed beside it

God disguised as menial Girl in menial disguise at lover's court Scholar disguised as a rustic along road answers questions of school inspector in Greek, Latin, and Hebrew Gardener disguise Pope disguised as caulker Disguise as woodcutter Disguise as potter Disguise as goose-girl (turkey-girl) Disguise as herdsman (shepherd, swineherd, etc.) Disguise as porter Disguise as stable-boy Disguise as peasant Disguise as cobbler (shoemaker) Disguise as carpenter Disguise as smith Disguise as slave

Carried in tale types

King Thrushbeard · ATU 900 24 recorded variants
The Man with Four Wives (previously The Girl Elopes With the Wrong Man) · ATU 856 4 recorded variants

ask the rhapsode about this motif · search the shelf for “princess's” · wander