Disguise by mutilation so as to escape. Ears cut off, eyes put out, etc

Motif

Disguise by mutilation so as to escape. Ears cut off, eyes put out, etc.

Deceptions. · Escape by deception. · Death escaped through disguise, shamming, or substitution. · view the constellation · filed as K521.2.2

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

Africa (Basuto)Jacottet 24 No. 2.
general *Chauvin VIII 136 No. 132

Within the index

Filed under Change of bodily appearance so as to escape.

Filed beside it

Disguise by shaving off beard so as to escape Disguise as king with mask in order to hide from enemy who has ruined warrior's face and torn his beard off Disguise as farmer so as to escape Disguise as carpenter so as to escape

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