Villain disguised as ascetic or nun.
Deceptions. · Villains and traitors. · Treacherous churchmen. · view the constellation · filed as K2285
Motif
Filed across the traditions
- Spanish Exempla Keller
- 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
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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