Disguise as sick man — Mythoi

Motif

Disguise as sick man.

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

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth *Cross
Icelandic Boberg
Jewish *Neuman
Arabian Burton Nights S V 285
Japanese Ikeda
West Indies Flowers 546.
general *Type 3

Within the index

Filed under Deception by disguise.

6 finer motifs beneath it

Disguise as leper 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

Filed beside it

Disguise by putting on clothes (carrying accoutrements) of certain person Dog procures disguise from magician to frighten tiger Lover disguised as other knight in order to reach sweetheart Gods (saints) in disguise visit mortals King in disguise Disguised husband visits his wife Woman in disguise wooed by her faithless husband Humble disguise. (Cap o' Rushes, Peau d'âne Allerleirauh.) Usually in rough clothing. (Cf. K521.4.3, K1812, K1816.) Disguise as menial Disguise as wanderer Disguise by changing bodily appearance Animal disguises as human being. (Cf. K1825.1.5.) Man disguises as animal Disguise as layman. Priest disguises as layman Disguise as professional man Disguise as churchman (cleric)

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

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

Sick Animal Carries the Healthy One (previously Carrying the Sham-Sick Trickster) · ATU 4 1 recorded variant

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