Clothes changed so as to escape — Mythoi

Motif

Clothes changed so as to escape.

Deceptions. · Escape by deception. · Death escaped through disguise, shamming, or substitution. · view the constellation · filed as K521.4

Filed across the traditions

India Thompson-Balys
Indonesia DeVries's list No. 8.

Within the index

Filed under Escape by disguise.

6 finer motifs beneath 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 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

Filed beside it

Escape by dressing in animal (bird, human) skin Change of bodily appearance so as to escape Disguise by painting (covering with soot, etc.) so as to escape Escape in huge pumpkin shell. (Attempted.) Abbot escapes from his paramour's husband in disguise of priest One animal escapes by shamming as another (jackal as goat) Goat escapes from jackal by being covered with flowers Women escape from enemy's camp disguised as ascetics Hare escapes lion by being bundled in brushwood Hare and bride travel in pot to escape tiger, answer "Ruined pot" when challenged

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