μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Disguise as beggar (pauper).

Deceptions. · Deception through shams. · Deception by disguise or illusion. · Deception by disguise. · view the constellation · filed as K1817.1

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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 — 15references

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.

  • EnglishWells 11 (Horn Childe and Maiden Rimnild)
  • Icelandic*Boberg
  • SpanishEspinosa II Nos. 133–135, III No. 192, Espinosa Jr. Nos. 145, 210
  • Greek*Frazer Apollodorus II 299 n. 3 → on our shelf: The Library (Bibliotheca), APOLLODORI BIBLIOTHECA, ch. 33
  • Jewish*Neuman
  • ArabianBurton Nights I 67
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • ChineseEberhard FFC CXX 249 No. 193
  • KoreanZong in-Sob 116 No. 58
  • HawaiiBeckwith Myth 393.
  • general *Type 900
  • general *BP I 443ff.
  • general Schoepperle II 583 s. v. "disguises"
  • general *Hdwb. d. Märchens I 250b
  • general Child I 189, 191f., 202–207, III 157, 179, 191ff., 271ff., V 2ff., 279f. Irish: O'Suilleabhain 24, 42, 45, Beal XXI 307, 315f., *Cross
Within the index

Filed under Disguise as wanderer.

1 finer motif beneath it
Disguise as fakir
Filed beside it
Disguise as palmer (pilgrim)Disguise as harper (minstrel)Disguise as merchantDisguise as gypsy
Travels with
Satan disguised as beggar. (Cf. K1817.1.)
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