Service under a false name — Mythoi

Motif

Service under a false name.

Deceptions. · Deception through shams. · Deception by disguise or illusion. · Deception by disguise. · view the constellation · filed as K1831

Filed across the traditions

Icelandic *Boberg.
general *Dickson 220f. nn. 13, 14

Within the index

Filed under Deception by disguise.

3 finer motifs beneath it

Disguise by changing name Shipwrecked men call themselves by false names Service in disguise

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 as sick man 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

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Guest in disguise or under false name. (Cf. K1831.)

Carried in tale types

The Princess Confined in the Mound · ATU 870 1 recorded variant

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