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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

Filed across the traditions
  • Spanish Espinosa 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

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