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

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

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Scholars’ trail — 7references

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.

Icelandic*Boberg
JapaneseIkeda
N. Am. IndianThompson 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

Humble disguise. (Cap o' Rushes, Peau d'âne Allerleirauh.) Usually in rough clothing. (Cf. K521.4.3, K1812, K1816.)

wander