μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Escape in humble disguise. (Cap o' Rushes.)

Deceptions. · Escape by deception. · Death escaped through disguise, shamming, or substitution. · view the constellation · filed as K521.4.3

Filed across the traditions
  • Icelandic *Boberg
  • Japanese Ikeda
  • N. Am. Indian Thompson CColl II 385ff., (Ojibwa): Laidlaw Ontario Arch. Rep. (1918 reprint) 36.
  • general *Type 510B
  • general *Cox Cinderella
  • general *BP II 45
  • general *Saintyves Contes de Perrault 187, 196ff.
Within the index

Filed under Clothes changed so as to escape.

1 finer motif beneath it
Escape by disguising as a washerman
Filed beside it
Disguise in clothes of other sex so as to escape Disguise as musician in order to escape 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
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Humble disguise. (Cap o' Rushes, Peau d'âne Allerleirauh.) Usually in rough clothing. (Cf. K521.4.3, K1812, K1816.)

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