Adulteress escapes prison disguised as an old woman — Mythoi

Motif

Adulteress escapes prison disguised as an old woman.

Deceptions. · Escape by deception. · Death escaped through disguise, shamming, or substitution. · view the constellation · filed as K521.4.5

Filed across the traditions

Italian Novella *Rotunda.

Within the index

Filed under Clothes changed so as to escape.

Filed beside it

Disguise in clothes of other sex so as to escape Disguise as musician in order to escape Escape in humble disguise. (Cap o' Rushes.) Disguise as waiter in inn to escape 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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