μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Disguise as madman (fool).

Deceptions. · Deception through shams. · Deception by disguise or illusion. · Deception by disguise. · view the constellation · filed as K1818.3

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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 — 11references

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.

Within the index

Filed under Disguise as sick man.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Wise man disguised as buffoonLover approaches mistress disguised as foolSharp man pretends to be stupid so as to be included in plans and conversation of plotters
Filed beside it
Disguise as leperScald-head disguise. To avoid having his gold hair seen, the hero covers his head with a cloth and says that he has the scaldheadDisguise as deformed men to secure entertainmentAnimal feigns lamenessDeception by pretended faint
Travels with
Disguise as madman to enter girl's room. (Cf. K1818.3.)
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.)

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