μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Girls keep up appearances to deceive suitors as to their desirability.

Deceptions. · Deception through shams. · Impostures. · Other impostures. · view the constellation · filed as K1984

Filed across the traditions
  • North Carolina Brown Collection I 702
  • Japanese Ikeda.
  • general Type 1459**
Within the index

Filed under Other impostures.

5 finer motifs beneath it
The lisping sisters. The girls have been warned against speaking, but forget and are found out The girl who ate so little. When the suitor sees her baking he finds that she can eat The girl with the ugly name. Her mother gives her a new one but the girl does not recognize it and her mother must call her by her old name Ugly women complain of falling flowers. King hearing them supposes them delicate and beautiful Blind fiancée betrays self. Mistakes one object for another
Filed beside it
Deception by playing deaf and dumb Ubiquitous beggar. In disguise obtains alms three times from the same person Trickster poses as helper and eats women's stored provisions Rearing the large-headed and large-eyed bird. When the one rearing the owl learns its age he kills it Devil disguised as candidate for confirmation Devil disguised as man goes to church Brother (sister) secures blessing due to another Hare (jackal) makes horns of wax and poses as horned animal. Horns melt by the fire Devil tries to pass for Jesus. Forbids man to cut wood on Sunday. Disappears when man demands to see the wounds on his hands and feet Wise man sent by king to rival to give him interested advice
Carried in tale types

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