μῦθοι Mythoi
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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

  • Icelandic*Boberg.
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Filed under Disguise by changing bodily appearance.

1 finer motif beneath it
Beautiful woman blackens face as disguise
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 painting bodyDisguise by veiling faceYouths wear false beards (of grass, wool)Disguise by dyeing complexionDisguise by cutting one eye outDisguise as old manDisguise in wooden coveringDisguise by cutting off hair

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