Travelers mistake brushwood at a distance for a ship

Motif

Travelers mistake brushwood at a distance for a ship.

Deceptions. · Deception through shams. · Deception by disguise or illusion. · Illusions. · view the constellation · filed as K1886.4

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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.

general Wienert FFC LVI 75 (ET 411), 123 (ST 323)
general Halm Aesop No. 310.

Within the index

Filed under Illusions in landscape.

Filed beside it

Mirage. Illusory water and land Mists which lead astray Mock sunrise. Contract is to be fulfilled at dawn. Wolf makes fire as mock sunrise. Is caught Companions separated by illusory city Illusory shapes of animals made to appear on hilltops Illusory mountain (hill)

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