Appearances deceive — Mythoi

Motif

Appearances deceive.

The nature of life. · The nature of life – miscellaneous motifs. · Appearances deceive. · view the constellation · filed as U110

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Irish Gods and Fighting Men: The Story of the Tuatha de Danaan and of the Fianna of Ireland , Ch. 3 CHAPTER I. THE COMING OF LUGH
Literary Crystallization Masnavi i Ma'navi: The Spiritual Couplets (abridged) , Book 2, Story 4

Cited in the index

general Wienert FFC LVI 123.

Within the index

8 finer motifs beneath it

Many books do not make a scholar Beard on she-goats do not make a male Big voice: little creature. (Frogs, crickets.) Mountain in labor brings forth a mouse The skeleton in the closet. An apparently happy man lets another see the actual misery of his existence Hypocrite is acclaimed as saint after his death Man rejects bride because she seems immature. Her father reassures him that she has had several children already Other ways in which appearances deceive

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