μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Repentant nurse disguises as hermit.

Deceptions. · Deception through shams. · Deception by disguise or illusion. · Deception by disguise. · view the constellation · filed as K1837.3

Filed across the traditions
  • Spanish Childers
  • Italian Novella Rotunda.
Within the index

Filed under Disguise of woman in man's clothes. (Cf. K1825.)

Filed beside it
Boasting coward exposed by wife who masks as highwayman and robs him Woman disguised as pilgrim engages lover in conversation and learns of his faithlessness. (Cf. K1817.2.) Girl in man's clothes avenges her father Wife disguises as a man and outwits landlord of inn when he tries same trick he has played on her husband to get all of his goods, etc Disguise of woman as a soldier Virgin living disguised as a man and unrecognized in a monastery becomes abbot (St. Eugenia) Woman in male disguise made king
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Woman disguised as hermit rescues abandoned child. (Cf. K1837.3.)

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