μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 5references

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.

  • LithuanianBalys Index No. 1730B*
  • SpanishEspinosa II No. 42
  • West IndiesFlowers 546f.
  • general Type 1827**
  • general Anderson FFC XLII 359
Within the index

Filed under Deception by substitution.

1 finer motif beneath it
Man acts as statue of saint in order to enter convent
Filed beside it
The Virgin Mary substitutes for a mortalWife deceives husband with substituted bedmateHusband deceives wife with substituted bedmateSubstitute in battleDeception by substitution: wife substitutes calf for beggar whom drunken husband wants to catch and abuseDeception by substitution of childrenSubstitute for taskSubstituted letter. A letter is changed on the way to its destination so as to falsify the messageSleeping potion substituted for poison. (Cf. K2111.1.)Substitute sacrificeServant impersonates dead master and makes a false testamentYounger and preferred brother substituted by mother for elder to deceive fatherSubstitute specimen for laboratory test

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