Poor boy said by helpful animal to be dispossessed prince (wealthy man) who has lost clothes while swimming (in shipwreck).
Deceptions. · Deception through shams. · Impostures. · Sham prowess. · view the constellation · filed as K1952.1.1
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 4references
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.
- IndiaThompson-Balys
- East AfricaRochemonteix Quelques Contes Nubiens (Cairo, 1888) 55ff. No. 5, (Swahili): Steere 13ff.
- general Type 545
- general *BP III 487f.
Within the index
Filed under Poor boy said by helpful cat to be dispossessed prince. This is believed.
Carried in tale types
- Puss in Boots · ATU 545B12 recorded variants