μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 7references

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
  • IcelandicBoberg
  • Jewish*Neuman
  • ArabianBurton Nights S V 285
  • JapaneseIkeda
  • West IndiesFlowers 546.
  • general *Type 3
Within the index

Filed under Deception by disguise.

6 finer motifs beneath 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 madman (fool)Disguise as deformed men to secure entertainmentAnimal feigns lamenessDeception by pretended faint
Filed beside it
Disguise by putting on clothes (carrying accoutrements) of certain personDog procures disguise from magician to frighten tigerLover disguised as other knight in order to reach sweetheartGods (saints) in disguise visit mortalsKing in disguiseDisguised husband visits his wifeWoman in disguise wooed by her faithless husbandHumble disguise. (Cap o' Rushes, Peau d'âne Allerleirauh.) Usually in rough clothing. (Cf. K521.4.3, K1812, K1816.)Disguise as menialDisguise as wandererDisguise by changing bodily appearanceAnimal disguises as human being. (Cf. K1825.1.5.)Man disguises as animalDisguise as layman. Priest disguises as laymanDisguise as professional manDisguise as churchman (cleric)
Travels with
Man feigns sick in order to enter room of princess skilled in healing, and woos her for his friend. (Cf. K1818, T51.1.1.)
Carried in tale types

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