Virgin living disguised as a man and unrecognized in a monastery becomes abbot (St. Eugenia)

Motif

Virgin living disguised as a man and unrecognized in a monastery becomes abbot (St. Eugenia).

Deceptions. · Deception through shams. · Deception by disguise or illusion. · Deception by disguise. · view the constellation · filed as K1837.7

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

Irish mythCross.
general *Loomis White Magic 110f.

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.)Repentant nurse disguises as hermit 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 Woman in male disguise made king

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