μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

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

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

Filed across the traditions
  • Icelandic *Boberg
  • Missouri French Carrière
  • Spanish Boggs FFC XC 58, 68, 104 Nos. 455, 515, *857
  • Italian Basile Pentamerone III Nos. 3, 6, IV No. 6, *Rotunda
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Chinese Werner 275 → on our shelf: Myths & Legends of China, Chapter X
  • Indonesia DeVries's list No. 222.
  • general *Types 514, 880, 881, 882, 883A, 884, 890
  • general *BP II 57f.
  • general Penzer III 46f.
  • general Boje XIX 70f.
  • general Alphabet No. 318
  • general Heptameron No. 31. – Irish myth: *Cross
Within the index

Filed under Deception by disguise.

8 finer motifs beneath 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 Virgin living disguised as a man and unrecognized in a monastery becomes abbot (St. Eugenia) Woman in male disguise made king
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.)
Disguise as professional man Woman disguised as man sells herself into slavery in order to ransom (free) her husband (lover). (Cf. K1837.)
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Blind god. Hödhr Goddess of mercy Animal as servant to man Animal as domestic servant Helpful tiger Transformation: man to tiger Transformation: instruments of torture to lotus flowers Magic object acquired as reward for religious austerities Magic peach Magic hairpin Magic waters and medicines Magic salve (ointment)
Carried in tale types

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