μῦθοι Mythoi
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Scholars’ trail — 13references

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
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • Buddhist mythMalalasekera I 1013, 1019
  • KoreanZong in-Sob 18 No. 9
  • IndonesiaDeVries's list No. 106, *Dixon 191 n. 13
  • PhilippineFansler MAFLS XII 384
  • Eskimo (Central)Boas RBAE VI 584, (Greenland): Rasmussen III 75
  • Africa (Yoruba)Ellis 273 No. 6, (Basuto): Jacottet 120 No. 27, (Benga): Nassau 228 No. 34, (Bushman): Bleek and Lloyd 175, (Fang): Trilles 205.
  • general *Type 33
  • general *BP II 120, III 345
  • general *Chauvin VIII 136 No. 132
  • general Liebrecht Zur Volkskunde 112 No. 23
  • general *Penzer V 79 n. 3
Within the index

Filed under Death escaped through disguise, shamming, or substitution.

9 finer motifs beneath it
Death feigned to escape unwelcome marriage. (Cf. K523.0.1.)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 plotCaptive parrots in net play dead and are thrown out: escapeEscape by shammed burialEscape by shammed drowning; wrecked boat or coffin landsSham murder: trickster attacked by angry mother causes her to spear ox guts and believe she has murdered himEscape by shammed hanging
Filed beside it
Escape by disguiseEscape by shamming illnessEscape by use of substituted object. The object is attacked rather than the intended victimCaptor's bag filled with animals or objects while captives escapeEscape by substituting another person in place of the intended victimSubstitute in ordeal. An ordeal (usually dangerous) is escaped by deceptively providing a substituteEscape from battle by magic invisibilityEscape under mantle of invisibilityEscape by successive disguisesEscape by reversing shoes (boat)Captors deceived into believing captive is planning to stay with them: vigilance relaxed. Captured general orders heavy boxes taken into the temple. These are thought to be gold and it is concluded that he will not try to leave. He escapesPrincess cuts hair to escape captor who holds her hair in hand while sleeping with her
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