μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
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.

  • HawaiiBeckwith Myth 443
  • general Boje XIX 67ff.
  • general Africa (Mambettu): Casati Ten Years in Equatoria (London, 1891) I 162.
Within the index

Filed under Disguise by changing bodily appearance.

Filed beside it
Disguise by dyeing beard. Youths have been advised never to serve a man with a red beard. The trickster dyes his beard blackDisguise by veiling faceYouths wear false beards (of grass, wool)Disguise by dyeing complexionDisguise by cutting one eye outBeautiful woman in hideous disguiseDisguise as old manDisguise in wooden coveringDisguise by cutting off hair

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