Disguise as leper

Motif

Disguise as leper.

Deceptions. · Deception through shams. · Deception by disguise or illusion. · Deception by disguise. · view the constellation · filed as K1818.1

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Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

Irish myth*Cross
EnglishWells 143 (Generydes)
TongaGifford 193.

Within the index

Filed under Disguise as sick man.

Filed beside it

Scald-head disguise. To avoid having his gold hair seen, the hero covers his head with a cloth and says that he has the scaldhead Disguise as madman (fool)Disguise as deformed men to secure entertainment Animal feigns lameness Deception by pretended faint

Travels with

Disguise as leper to enter enemy's camp. (Cf. K1818.1.)

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