Escape by dressing in animal (bird, human) skin

Motif

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

Deceptions. · Escape by deception. · Death escaped through disguise, shamming, or substitution. · view the constellation · filed as K521.1

ask the rhapsode about this motif →

Scholars’ trail — 6references

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.

EnglishWells 20 (William of Palerne)
Africa (Fang)Einstein 76, Trilles Proverbs 203.
general *Types 311, 510B, 1137
general *BP I 399ff., III 375 (incident B2)
general *Hackman Polyphemsage 160ff.
general *Fb "hest" I 599b

Within the index

Filed under Escape by disguise.

4 finer motifs beneath it

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

Filed beside it

Change of bodily appearance so as to escape Disguise by painting (covering with soot, etc.) so as to escape Clothes changed so as to escape Escape in huge pumpkin shell. (Attempted.)Abbot escapes from his paramour's husband in disguise of priest One animal escapes by shamming as another (jackal as goat)Goat escapes from jackal by being covered with flowers Women escape from enemy's camp disguised as ascetics Hare escapes lion by being bundled in brushwood Hare and bride travel in pot to escape tiger, answer "Ruined pot" when challenged

Carried in tale types

Rescue by the Sister · ATU 3116 recorded variants
The Blinded Ogre · ATU 11372 recorded variants
Peau d'asne (previously The Dress of Gold, of Silver, and of Stars [Cap o' Rushes]) · ATU 510B2 recorded variants

wander