μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Disguise in clothes of other sex so as to escape.

Deceptions. · Escape by deception. · Death escaped through disguise, shamming, or substitution. · view the constellation · filed as K521.4.1

Filed across the traditions
  • Africa (Wute) Sieber ZsES XII 188.
Within the index

Filed under Clothes changed so as to escape.

4 finer motifs beneath it
Girl escapes in male disguise 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
Filed beside it
Disguise as musician in order to escape Escape in humble disguise. (Cap o' Rushes.) Disguise as waiter in inn to escape Adulteress escapes prison disguised as an old woman Escape 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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