Invisible man eats bread and boy and girl quarrel. Each thinks other had eaten bread

Motif

Invisible man eats bread and boy and girl quarrel. Each thinks other had eaten bread.

Deceptions. · Deception through shams. · Deception by disguise or illusion. · Illusions. · view the constellation · filed as K1883.6

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IndiaThompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Illusory enemies.

Filed beside it

Phantom army attacked Objects (animals) attacked under the illusion that they are men Two soldiers slay each other thinking they are slaying a common enemy Slayers magically made to believe stone their enemy. They behead it Comrade slain under the illusion that he is an enemy Deception: mirror-reflection convinces dupe he is trickster's captive Images set up to resemble watchmen Hero wears so many different costumes that he is believed to represent a host

Travels with

Blind men duped into fighting: money to be divided. Trickster says that he is giving one of them money to be divided with the others. Gives it to none. They quarrel and fight. (Cf. K1883.6.)

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