Disguise by painting (covering with soot, etc.) so as to escape

Motif

Disguise by painting (covering with soot, etc.) so as to escape.

Deceptions. · Escape by deception. · Death escaped through disguise, shamming, or substitution. · view the constellation · filed as K521.3

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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.

SpanishEspinosa Jr. Nos. 1, 4, 5.
general Type 36

Within the index

Filed under Escape by disguise.

1 finer motif beneath it

Covering self with clay so as to escape

Filed beside it

Escape by dressing in animal (bird, human) skin Change of bodily appearance 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

The Fox Rapes the She-Bear (previously The Fox in Disguise Violates the She-Bear) · ATU 361 recorded variant

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