μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Escape by making sheaths of bark for fingers: hero leaves without awakening nymph wives who make him sleep with fingers in mouth.

Deceptions. · Escape by deception. · Death escaped through disguise, shamming, or substitution. · view the constellation · filed as K521.4.6

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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.

  • IndiaThompson-Balys.
Within the index

Filed under Clothes changed so as to escape.

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Disguise in clothes of other sex so as to escapeDisguise 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 woman

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