Villain disguised as ascetic or nun

Motif

Villain disguised as ascetic or nun.

Deceptions. · Villains and traitors. · Treacherous churchmen. · view the constellation · filed as K2285

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.

Spanish ExemplaKeller
Italian Novella*Rotunda.
general **M. Bloomfield "On False Ascetics and Nuns in Hindu Fiction" JAOS XLIV 202ff.
general *Penzer III 211 n. 1, V 102 n. 2, VI 12 n. 1, IX 23 n. 2

Within the index

Filed under Treacherous churchmen.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Ascetic as villain Treacherous anchorite

Filed beside it

Treacherous bishop Treacherous cardinal Treacherous priest Sage as villain

Carried in tale types

Pilgrimage of the Animals (previously Cock and Other Animals Journey to Rome to Become Pope) · ATU 20D*1 recorded variant

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