Girl escapes in male disguise — Mythoi

Motif

Girl escapes in male disguise.

Deceptions. · Escape by deception. · Death escaped through disguise, shamming, or substitution. · view the constellation · filed as K521.4.1.1

Filed across the traditions

Icelandic Boberg
Italian Novella *Rotunda.
general *Chauvin V 96 No. 31 n. 1
general Boccaccio Decameron II No. 9 (Lee 54)

Within the index

Filed under Disguise in clothes of other sex so as to escape.

Filed beside it

Man in danger of life dressed by hostess as woman and set to baking Man in danger of life dressed by hostess as woman and set to grinding corn Man in danger of life takes his wife's place in the bed with her night-cap on

Carried in tale types

The Abandoned Bride Disguised as a Man · ATU 881A 1 recorded variant

ask the rhapsode about this motif · search the shelf for “disguise” · wander