55 motifs match “mistaken”  ·  back to the chapters

• Faithful dog killed by overhasty master: thinks mistakenly he has returned home against orders. (Cf. Llewellyn and his dog.) B331.2.2
• Clerics mistaken for fairies. F234.2.4.1
• His proper title. A peasant goes to a judge and thinking to gain his favor addresses him with high titles. The judge calls him a fool. "I was mistaken, you swine!" J1286
• Mistaken identity. A bride slips up behind her husband and kisses him. He is annoyed. She: "Pardon me, I did not know it was you" J1485
• Husband mistaken for lover in bed. Farmer has whiskers shaved off, hair cut short. He gets home late, slips into bed with his wife. She runs her hand over his face, says: "Young man, if you're goin' to do anything, you'd better be agittin' at it, 'cause Old Whiskers'll be here pretty soon." J1485.1
• One animal mistaken for another. J1750
• Tiger (lion, etc.) mistaken for domestic animal. J1758
• Tiger mistaken for goat. Fool trying to steal goat in dark catches thieving tiger. J1758.1
• Tiger mistaken for ass. J1758.3
• Other mistaken animals. J1759
• Bull mistaken for horse. J1759.4
• Calf mistaken for colt. J1759.4.1
• Cat's tail mistaken for worm. J1759.5
• Animal or person mistaken for something else. J1760
• Snake mistaken for a whip by a blind man. J1761.6.1
• Bear mistaken for a floating log (blanket). J1761.9
• Animals mistaken for messengers. J1762.0.1
• Goose mistaken for a tailor. In a ghost house he is thought to be a tailor who snips the devil with his scissors. J1762.1
• Crab mistaken for tailor. J1762.1.2
• The bear mistaken for a saint. The godless man is cheated and attacks a bear thinking it is a saint, and barely escapes with his life. J1762.2.1
• Bees (wasps) mistaken for Jutlanders, etc. J1762.5
• Lobsters mistaken for Norwegians. J1762.7
• Bear mistaken for a foreigner. The strong man meets a bear in the forest, takes it for a German and struggles with it. Having strangled the bear, fears he has killed a man. J1762.8
• Girl mistaken for stone. J1763.2
• One person mistaken for another. J1766
• Other creatures with mistaken identity. J1769
• Dead mistaken for the living. Man with abhorrence for corpse sleeps with one thinking it alive. (Cf. H1410.) J1769.2.1
• Objects with mistaken identity. J1770
• Potatoes mistaken for "irregular eggs", or "eggs of the earth." J1772.1.2
• Boot mistaken for an axe-sheath. J1772.11
• Eight-oared ferry-boat mistaken for an animal which must have long legs to wade the stream. J1772.14
• Watch mistaken for the devil's eye. Knocked to pieces. J1781.2
• Cat mistaken for devil. Fool in the dark mistakes cat's eyes for embers. Is attacked by the cat and he thinks it is the devil. J1785.5
• Man mistaken for Famine and Cholera in person. J1786.3
• Priest exorcising demon mistaken for demon and beaten to death. J1786.4
• Shadow mistaken for substance. J1790
• Shadow mistaken for thief: is beaten. J1790.2
• Picture mistaken for original. J1792
• Mask mistaken for face. J1793
• Statue mistaken for living original. (Cf. K1840.) J1794
• Image in mirror mistaken for picture. J1795
• One thing mistaken for another – miscellaneous. J1800
• Similar sounding words mistaken for each other. J1805.1
• Setting sun mistaken for fire. J1806
• Other things with mistaken identities. J1809
• Old woman's sneeze mistaken for gunfire. J1809.1
• Trying to swim in the mist. Mistaken for sea. J1821.1
• Robber mistakenly carries off worthless goods and leaves valuable. K421
• Husband's twin brother mistaken by woman for her husband. K1311.1
• Returning husband beaten by servants. Mistaken for lover whom he has told them to beat. K1514.4
• Fairy mist mistaken for smoke of enemy's burning ships. K2369.9
• Death as result of mistaken identity: wrong person killed. N338
• Son killed because mistaken for someone else. (Cf. N321.) N338.3
• Woman mistakenly accused of cannibalism. She is seen biting off finger of corpse to get its ring. N342.6
• Girl mistakenly elopes with the wrong lover. The preferred suitor overtakes them, finds them asleep and waits for them to awaken. He himself falls asleep and when he wakes they have gone. T92.4