μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Wolf poses as mother and kills child.

Deceptions. · Deception through shams. · Hypocrites. · Hypocrite pretends friendship but attacks. · view the constellation · filed as K2011.1

Filed across the traditions
  • Africa (Basuto) Jacottet 62ff. No. 10.
Within the index

Filed under Wolf poses as "grandmother" and kills child. (Red Riding Hood.)

4 finer motifs beneath it
Ogre father poses as mother and kills child Bogey imitates mother and kills child Hyena poses as father and kills child Leopard poses as brother and kills child
Filed beside it
Tiger-ogress pretends to be girls' mother: explains tail as boil

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