μῦθοι Mythoi
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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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 (Wute)Sieber ZsES XII 188.
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Filed under Clothes changed so as to escape.

4 finer motifs beneath it
Girl escapes in male disguiseMan in danger of life dressed by hostess as woman and set to bakingMan in danger of life dressed by hostess as woman and set to grinding cornMan in danger of life takes his wife's place in the bed with her night-cap on
Filed beside it
Disguise as musician in order to escapeEscape in humble disguise. (Cap o' Rushes.)Disguise as waiter in inn to escapeAdulteress escapes prison disguised as an old womanEscape by making sheaths of bark for fingers: hero leaves without awakening nymph wives who make him sleep with fingers in mouth

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