μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Bride substitutes wooden picture while she herself escapes sleeping groom.

Deceptions. · Escape by deception. · Death escaped through disguise, shamming, or substitution. · view the constellation · filed as K525.1.2

Filed across the traditions
  • Icelandic *Boberg.
Within the index

Filed under Substituted object left in bed while intended victim escapes.

Filed beside it
Woman puts figures of paramour and herself in bed. Husband attacks them. Woman uses it as a lesson to "reform" husband In order to save child from death, maid substitutes block dressed to resemble it. Enemy strikes block

ask the rhapsode about this motif · search the shelf for “substitutes” · wander