μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

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.

Deceptions. · Deception through shams. · Deception by disguise or illusion. · Deception by disguise. · view the constellation · filed as K1818.2

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Scholars’ trail — 4references

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.

  • Missouri FrenchCarrière.
  • general *Types 314, 502
  • general *BP III 109
  • general *Chauvin VI 51 No. 217 n. 3
Within the index

Filed under Disguise as sick man.

Filed beside it
Disguise as leperDisguise as madman (fool)Disguise as deformed men to secure entertainmentAnimal feigns lamenessDeception by pretended faint

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