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

Filed across the traditions
  • English Wells 11 (Horn Childe and Maiden Rimnild)
  • Icelandic *Boberg
  • Spanish Espinosa 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
  • Arabian Burton Nights I 67
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Chinese Eberhard FFC CXX 249 No. 193
  • Korean Zong in-Sob 116 No. 58
  • Hawaii Beckwith 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 merchant Disguise as gypsy
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
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 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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