Man sewed in animal's hide carried off by birds — Mythoi

Motif

Man sewed in animal's hide carried off by birds.

Deceptions. · Escape by deception. · Death escaped through disguise, shamming, or substitution. · view the constellation · filed as K521.1.1

Filed across the traditions

Jewish Grünbaum Neue Beiträge zur semitischen Sagenkunde (Leyden, 1893) 234f.
general Penzer I 141 n. 2
general Frobenius Das Zeitalter des Sonnengottes (Berlin, 1904) I 199ff

Within the index

Filed under Escape by dressing in animal (bird, human) skin.

Filed beside it

Escape by dressing in bear's skin Escape in monkey-skin Escape by putting on old woman's skin

Carried in tale types

The Golden Mountain · ATU 936* 1 recorded variant

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