Army appears like forest. Surprises enemy. Each soldier carries branches. (Birnam wood comes to Dunsinane.) — Mythoi

Motif

Army appears like forest. Surprises enemy. Each soldier carries branches. (Birnam wood comes to Dunsinane.)

Deceptions. · Deception through shams. · Deception by disguise or illusion. · Illusions. · view the constellation · filed as K1872.1

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth *Cross.
general *Fb "skov" III 300a
general Shakespeare's Macbeth
general Rohde Der griechische Roman 485
general Grimm Kleinere Schriften V 43
general Herrmann Saxo II 341, 498
general Kurth Histoire poetique des Merovingiens 396ff.

Within the index

Filed under Camouflage.

Filed beside it

Reeds make ships appear like island Love letter hidden in apple Wound masked by other wound in order not to be recognized Banners of army appear like flock of many-colored birds

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