Secret name overheard by eavesdropper — Mythoi

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Secret name overheard by eavesdropper.

Chance and fate. · Lucky accidents. · Valuable secrets learned. · Secrets overheard. · view the constellation · filed as N475

Filed across the traditions

Icelandic Boberg
Japanese Ikeda
Jamaica *Beckwith MAFLS XVII 247 No. 23, 267 No. 75, 279 Nos. 92, 93
West Indies Flowers 564.
general *Type 500
general *Clodd Tom-Tit-Tot
general *Polivka Zs. f. Vksk. X 254ff.
general *Von Sydow Två Spinnsagor

Within the index

Filed under Secrets overheard.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Secret age overheard by eavesdropper. Man masking as cuckoo in tree causes the surprised ogre to disclose secret Secret reason why hero does not want to eat the food of the foreign king overheard by eavesdropper

Filed beside it

Secrets overheard from animal (demon) conversation Secret remedy overheard in conversation of animals (witches) Man transformed as ant, learns secret of freeing princess Conversation of objects overheard Overheard (human) conversation Enigmatical smile (laugh) reveals secret knowledge Secret physical peculiarity discovered by barber. (Midas.) Daughter lousing mother weeps and reveals secret King in disguise to learn secrets of his subjects Newborn babe reveals secret; then becomes silent Foolish attempt of second man to overhear secrets (from animals, demons etc.). He is punished Secret of unique vulnerability disclosed Secret wealth betrayed by money left in borrowed money-scales Secret escapes with man's blood Secret learned by torture Giant unwittingly reveals span of life to dwarf, who is thus emboldened to attack him

Carried in tale types

The Name of the Supernatural Helper · ATU 500 6 recorded variants

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