Escape by dressing in bear's skin — Mythoi

Motif

Escape by dressing in bear's skin.

Deceptions. · Escape by deception. · Death escaped through disguise, shamming, or substitution. · view the constellation · filed as K521.1.2

Cited in the index

general Þiðriks saga I 261–72 (cf. 339–40)
general Asbjørnsen and Moe No. 58 (type 590)
general Gonzenbach No. 68 and Köhler's notes.

Within the index

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

Filed beside it

Man sewed in animal's hide carried off by birds Escape in monkey-skin Escape by putting on old woman's skin

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