μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Disguise as doctor.

Deceptions. · Deception through shams. · Deception by disguise or illusion. · Deception by disguise. · view the constellation · filed as K1825.1

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“The Nunnery on Fire Seeing all these gods arrive to help the novice, the Superior, I Yu, held consultation with the choir-mistress, saying: "We assigned to the Princess the burdensome work of the kitchen because she refused to return to the world; but since she has entered on her duties the gods of the eight caves of Heaven have come to offer her fruit, Ch'ieh Lan sweeps the kitchen, the dragon has dug a well, the God of the Hearth and…”

Myths & Legends of China, Chapter X · served from our shelf

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Filed under Disguise as professional man.

6 finer motifs beneath it
Lover masks as doctor to reach sweetheartPoor girl masks as doctor and is made court physicianTrickster masks as doctor and punishes his cheatersGirl masks as doctor to find departed loverAnimal disguised as doctor. (Cf. K1822.)Disguise as physician to poison enemies
Filed beside it
Woman masks as lawyer (judge) and frees her husbandDisguise as barberDisguise as hospitallerDisguise as soldierDisguise as dancerTwelve men in disguise as carpenters are engaged to build hall for the king's wedding: they abduct the brideDisguise as astrologer
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Blind god. HödhrGoddess of mercyAnimal as servant to manAnimal as domestic servantHelpful tigerTransformation: man to tigerTransformation: instruments of torture to lotus flowersMagic object acquired as reward for religious austeritiesMagic peachMagic hairpinMagic waters and medicinesMagic salve (ointment)

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