μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

  • North CarolinaBrown Collection I 702
  • JapaneseIkeda.
  • 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 outThe girl who ate so little. When the suitor sees her baking he finds that she can eatThe 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 nameUgly women complain of falling flowers. King hearing them supposes them delicate and beautifulBlind fiancée betrays self. Mistakes one object for another
Filed beside it
Deception by playing deaf and dumbUbiquitous beggar. In disguise obtains alms three times from the same personTrickster poses as helper and eats women's stored provisionsRearing the large-headed and large-eyed bird. When the one rearing the owl learns its age he kills itDevil disguised as candidate for confirmationDevil disguised as man goes to churchBrother (sister) secures blessing due to anotherHare (jackal) makes horns of wax and poses as horned animal. Horns melt by the fireDevil tries to pass for Jesus. Forbids man to cut wood on Sunday. Disappears when man demands to see the wounds on his hands and feetWise man sent by king to rival to give him interested advice
Carried in tale types

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