Death feigned to escape unwelcome marriage. (Cf. K523.0.1.) — Mythoi

Motif

Death feigned to escape unwelcome marriage. (Cf. K523.0.1.)

Deceptions. · Escape by deception. · Death escaped through disguise, shamming, or substitution. · view the constellation · filed as K522.0.1

Filed across the traditions

Lithuanian Balys Index No. 857*
Estonian Aarne FFC XXV No. 885*
Russian Andrejev No. 885*
Italian Novella *Rotunda.
general *Chauvin V 134 No. 63
general *Bolte Zs. f. Vksk. XXI 284
general Child II 355–367, III 517, IV 482ff., V 234a, 296b
general *Wesselski Märchen 198

Within the index

Filed under Escape by shamming death.

Filed beside it

Escape by shamming death: blood and brains. The trickster covers himself with paint (or the like) so that he will be thought to have bled to death (or with milk so that it will be thought that his brains have been knocked out) Ogre carries sham-dead man. "He smells already." Death feigned to escape from husband's death plot Captive parrots in net play dead and are thrown out: escape Escape by shammed burial Escape by shammed drowning; wrecked boat or coffin lands Sham murder: trickster attacked by angry mother causes her to spear ox guts and believe she has murdered him Escape by shammed hanging

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Illness (madness, dumbness, etc.) feigned to escape unwelcome marriage. (Cf. K522.0.1, K523.1.)

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