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Stith Thompson Motif Index
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Stith Thompson's Motif-Index of Folk-Literature classifies recurring narrative elements in folktales, myths, legends, ballads and related traditional narratives. Each entry below gives Thompson's motif reference and the description recorded in the index.
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Mythological Motifs
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Animal Motifs
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Motifs of Tabu
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Magic
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The Dead
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Marvels
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Ogres
H
Tests
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The Wise and the Foolish
K
Deceptions
L
Reversals of Fortune
M
Ordaining the Future
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Chance and Fate
P
Society
Q
Rewards and Punishments
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Captives and Fugitives
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Unnatural Cruelty
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Sex
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The Nature of Life
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Religion
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Traits of Character
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Humor
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Miscellaneous Groups of Motifs
| Thompson reference ▲ | Description |
|---|---|
| K1733 | Ogre made to believe hero has withstood fire. Hero escapes and after the room he has been in is burned he returns and is found sitting in the ashes. "It was a bit hot," he says. *Type 1116. |
| K1733.1 | Giant persuaded that hero has pushed hole in wall with bare hand. Hole bored before. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1735 | Dog pretends to be calling dog in the moon when he barks. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1736 | Troll bluffed away from christening. He is invited but told that guests will include the Virgin Mary, Thor the Thunderer, etc. He stays away but sends the finest present. *Type 1165; Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, German, Finnish, Estonian, Livonian, Latvian, Lithuanian: *Balys Tautosakos Darbai VI 137—161. |
| K1741 | Bluff: hero professes to be able to perform much larger task than that assigned. *BP III 333; Missouri French: Carrière. |
| K1741.1 | Felling the whole forest. Told to bring in a tree, the hero asks, "Why not the whole forest?" The ogre is frightened. *Type 1049; *BP III 333; Spanish: Espinosa III Nos. 163—167; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1741.1.1 | Bluff: told to bring home a tree, hero prepares to bring home six. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| K1741.2 | A thousand at one shot. Told to shoot one or two wild boars, hero asks, "Why not a thousand at one shot?" The ogre is frightened. *Type 1053; *BP III 333. |
| K1741.2.1 | Bluff: told to bring home an ox, hero prepares to bring home ten. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| K1741.3 | Bringing the whole well. Told to get water, hero demands bucket large enough to bring in the whole well. The ogre is frightened. Type 1049; *BP III 333; Spanish: Espinosa III Nos. 163—167. |
| K1741.3.1 | Bluff: told to bring water in an ox skin, hero prepares to dig a canal. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| K1741.4 | Wrestler claims to be able even to carry away a mountain. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1744 | Hero threatens to pull the lake together with a rope. The ogre is intimidated. *Types 1045, 1650; Spanish: Espinosa Nos. 163—167; Missouri French: Carrière. |
| K1745 | Hero threatens to haul away the warehouse with a rope. The ogre is intimidated. Type 1046. |
| K1746 | Trickster threatens to throw weight into a cloud: ogre intimidated. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| K1755 | Ogre terrified by woman's legs. He has formerly been caught in a vise. On his approach, the man's wife stands on her head and ogre thinks her legs are a vise. He flees. *Type 1159; *BP II 530 n. 3. Cf. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 1154*, 1164C*. |
| K1755.1 | Bear frightened away by man threatening to cleave its skull with his penis. He meets a woman who, upon being told what man had threatened, shows him a vestige of the cleaving she once got. Only partly healed. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1756 | Ogre terrified by an iron man. In order to save the king's daughter from the ogre an iron man is forged. *Type 1162. |
| K1760 | Other bluffs. |
| K1761 | Bluff: provisions for the swimming match. In a swimming match from a ship the hero takes a knapsack of provisions on his back. His rival is afraid and gives up. *Type 1612; N. A. Indian (Maliseet): Speck JAFL XXX 482 No. 7; Cape Verde Islands: Parsons MAFLS XV (1) 190. |
| K1762 | Bluff: climbing the mast. In a contest in climbing the mast the hero falls into the rigging. "You do the same thing," he challenges. The sailors are persuaded of his expertness. *Type 1611; N. A. Indian (Maliseet): Speck JAFL XXX 482 No. 7; Cape Verde Islands: Parsons MAFLS XV (1) 190. |
| K1765 | Bluff in court: the stone in the purse. A poor man has a stone in his purse to throw at the judge if he is sentenced. The judge thinks that he has money to use as a bribe and acquits him. *Type 1660; *Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin I 253 No. 171. |
| K1766 | Trickster's boasting scares his powerful opponent from contest. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1766.1 | False boasting of having killed his foster-brother makes his men follow the boaster. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| K1767 | Goat singing a threatening song bought off with food and jewels. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1771 | Bluffing threat. |
| K1771.1 | Sham threat: "In earnest or in jest?" A man asks another who has brushed against him: "Did you do that in earnest or in jest?"—"In earnest."—"I am glad, for I don't like that kind of jesting." *Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin II 219 No. 450. |
| K1771.2 | Sham threat: either .... or. "Either you give me the road or I (will give it to you, or the like)." *Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin II 21ff. No. 450; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 1564*. |
| K1771.3 | Sham threat: something he has never done before. Beggar says, "If you do not give me alms I shall have to do something I have never done before." The alms are given and he is asked what he would have had to do. "Work." *Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin II 217 No. 450. |
| K1771.4 | Sham threat: the faked duel. Two who had challenged each other agree to hold a sham duel. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1771.5 | Sham threat: if I were not a philosopher I should break your head for you. Nouvelles Récréations No. 68. |
| K1771.6 | Girl's sham threat in order to evade husband till lover returns. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| K1771.7 | Sham threat of war holds ships back so that there suddenly are enough men to man defending ship. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| K1771.8 | Sham dream prophesying shipwreck makes people leave ship so that there is room enough for man who wants to go. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| K1771.9 | King menaced into giving his daughter by means of borrowed fleet. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| K1772 | Pretended anger. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| K1774 | King persuades men to follow him, pretending that he is going to make peace with his brothers, instead battle. [A]ns saga Bogsveigis 335ff. |
| K1775 | Bluff: insult repeated as harmless remark. The trickster makes an insulting remark, but when called on to repeat what he said he changes it so as to turn aside wrath. Indonesia: DeVries's list No. 130; Africa (Basuto): Jacottet 12 No. 1, (Benga): Nassau 153ff. No. 19, (Yoruba): Ellis 266, (Ibo, Nigeria): Thomas 88, 151, (Kaffir): Theal 165, (Ila, Rhodesia): Smith and Dale II 384 No. 10, 395 No. 18; West Indies: Flowers 545. Cf. Chaucer Nun's Priest's Tale lines 343ff. |
| K1776 | Boast where the master cannot hear. The servant boasts that he has scolded his master. Type 2404. |
| K1777 | When he is looked at too threateningly hero feigns failing ability to go on horseback. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| K1781 | Threat to build a church in hell. When the man makes this threat, he is let out of hell. Type 804*; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 811A*; Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV No. 804*; Russian: Andrejev No. 804*. |
| K1782 | Bluff: wealth gained by seeming to be in the king's confidence. Courtier asks the king for a reward that will cost nothing. He gets permission to listen to the king's devotions. He now receives bribes because of his apparent influence. *Penzer V 186 n. 1; *Wesselski Mönchslatein 127 No. 110, Morlini 266 No. 4; Clouston Tales II 360ff.; *Herbert III 421 No. 82; Scala Celi 136b No. 762. |
| K1783 | Shoemaker offers to trim the peasant's feet to fit the shoes. The peasant prefers to accept the ill-fitting shoes. *Bolte Frey 217. |
| K1784 | Herdsman threatens invasion with enormous herds: bought off. He hires himself as herdsman of all his master's flocks for ten years. He then sends notice to surrounding peoples that he is coming with his master's flocks to graze. They bribe him to stay away. *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 362. |
| K1784.1 | Trickster falsely reports impending invasion from his own people. Receives money to buy them off. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1784.2 | Adventurer on otherworld island sees great hornless oxen guarded by giant: tries to frighten them. "Why dost thou frighten the stilly calves?" says the huge herdsman. "Where are the dams of these calves?" asks the adventurer. "They are on the other side of yonder mountain," said he. So he went thence. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| K1785 | Miracle must wait till one man is sacrificed. No one volunteers and it does not need to be performed. *Wesselski Mönchslatein 118 No. 99. |
| K1786 | Bluff: the rare vintages. Host serves many rare vintages and gets a reputation for his wine cellar. But there is only a small jug of each vintage. *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 837. |
| K1787 | Man falsely claims to have killed elephant with his flat hand. Rewarded. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1788 | Fox threatens to catch bird, who feeds him her young as appeasement. He threatens to push down tree or to fly. Type 56A; Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| K1791 | Sham duel in order to bring about recognition. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| K1792 | Feigned ignorance about person's identity in order to tell one's frank opinion of him. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| K1792.1 | Feigned ignorance of person's identity in order not to reveal king. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| K1792.2 | Feigned ignorance about the whereabouts of hero's weapons and horse in order to keep him as monk. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| K1795 | Illiterate man pretends to be weeping because he cannot make others understand the book he is reading. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1796 | Woman frightens robber away by telling him parrot's cry is husband's voice. Africa (Wakweli): Bender 70. |
| K1800 | Deception by disguise or illusion. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| K1810 | Deception by disguise. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| K1810.1 | Disguise by putting on clothes (carrying accoutrements) of certain person. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| K1810.1.1 | Fool wears king's crown. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| K1810.1.2 | Lover disguised in slain enemy's clothes. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| K1810.1.3 | Taking king's place by changing dresses. Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 252. |
| K1810.2 | Dog procures disguise from magician to frighten tiger. Africa (Cameroon): Meinhof 11. |
| K1810.3 | Lover disguised as other knight in order to reach sweetheart. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| K1811 | Gods (saints) in disguise visit mortals. *Types 330A, 750A, 751, 752A, 753, 768, 785, 791; *BP II 210, III 198, 451; *Dh II 129; *Rohde Der Griechische Roman 451 n.; Fb "Sankt Peder" III 164a; United States (Mormon): **Lee, Hector, "The Three Nephites: the Substance and Significance of the Legend in Folklore" (Albuquerque, 1949), "The Three Nephites: a Disappearing Legend" Am. Notes and Queries II 35—38, Hand, "The Three Nephites" Am. Notes and Queries II 56—57, Fife, "The Legend of the Three Nephites among the Mormons" JAFL LIII 1—49; Irish: O'Suilleabhain 22, Beal XXI 307, *Cross; Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 80, *Boberg; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "Pierre"; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Italian Novella: Rotunda; Greek: Fox 200, Grote I 36, 63, 88, 103, 160; Jewish: *Neuman, *bin Gorion Born Judas I 176f., 374; India: *Thompson-Balys; Hindu: Tawney I 370; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 19, 318, 473, 477, 648, 840, II 471, 504, 519, 572, 602, 1079, 1182, 1258, 1353, 1366; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 1f., 169; Japanese: Ikeda; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 69; S. A. Indian (Inca): Rowe BBAE CXLIII (2) 316, (Chamacoso): Métraux MAFLS XL 28, (Huaroichiri): ibid. 158; Africa (Ekoi): Talbot 177; West Indies: Flowers 545. |
| K1811.0.1 | Mortal entertained by disguised god. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1811.0.2 | Goddess in disguise visits earth and is waylaid by thieves. They set her free after she promises to tell them the fate of the new-born prince. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1811.1 | Gods (spirits) disguised as beggars. Test hospitality. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 770*, 930A*; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K1811.2 | Deity disguised as old man (woman) visits mortals. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 776; Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K1811.3 | God disguised as doctor cures mortal. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1811.4 | Deity takes form of particular person to visit mortals. Greek: Iliad and Odyssey passim. |
| K1811.4.1 | Fate takes form of Brahmin's pupil in order to lure him to his prophesied death. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1811.4.2 | Angel takes form of certain person. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| K1811.5 | Deity takes form of animal to visit mortals. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K1812 | King in disguise. *Chauvin VI 45 No. 209; Icelandic: *Boberg; Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 95. |
| K1812.0.1 | King disguised beaten by his own men. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1812.1 | Incognito king helped by humble man. Gives reward. Type 952; *BP III 450; Child V 67; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K1812.1.1 | Incognito king is asked by humble man to aid him. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1812.2 | Incognito king joins robbers. *Type 951; *BP III 393, 450; Penzer II 184f. n., VII 215ff.; India: *Thompson-Balys; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| K1812.2.1 | Incognito king joins robbers: to take only six shillings. The robber tells him that he must take no more, since the king has so many robbers. Type 951A. |
| K1812.2.2 | Incognito prince joins gamblers. He is beaten for showing courtesy. Realizes his folly and returns home. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1812.3 | Prince disguises as another prince to woo princess. Italian Novella: Rotunda; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| K1812.4 | Incognito king is given hospitality by fisherman. Rewards him with a city. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1812.5 | Incognito king in victor's court. Asks forgiveness. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1812.6 | Ruler disguises as goblin to frighten uxorious priest. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1812.7 | King disguises as common soldier and is killed. Fulfills prophecy that insures victory. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1812.8 | Incognito queen (princess). India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1812.8.1 | Queen flees husband's persecution disguised as knight. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1812.8.2 | Incognito princess travels as bishop (monk). Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1812.8.3 | Disguised queen visits her husband and begets child with him as assigned. (Cf. H1187.) Köhler-Bolte II 647ff.; Liungman Tvе Folkminnesundersökningar 25 n. 1. |
| K1812.9 | Incognito king rewards farmer for gift. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1812.10 | King disguised as peasant flees battle. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1812.11 | Incognito prince (king) sold into slavery. Disguised as sailor. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1812.12 | Incognito king comes to the aid of an enemy who has refused to vilify him. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1812.13 | Incognito king rewards strangers who treat him as companion. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1812.14 | Lecherous prince disguises as merchant in order to kill his grand-children. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1812.14.1 | King in disguise of merchant is given hospitality by enemy. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1812.15 | King disguised as own messenger. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1812.16 | King disguised as mountaineer. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1812.17 | King in disguise to spy out his kingdom. Chauvin VI 45 No. 209; Nouvelles Récréations No. 6. |
| K1812.18 | Fallen king in disguise recognized by former ally and helped. Irish myth: Cross. |
| K1812.19 | King in disguise as one of his own men rescued in fighting alone against four. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| K1812.20 | Count in disguise. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| K1813 | Disguised husband visits his wife. English: Wells 17 (Guy of Warwick); Irish myth: *Cross; Italian Novella: Rotunda; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K1813.1 | Disguised husband wins his faithless wife's love. Hindu: Tawney II 97; Africa (Ekoi): Talbot 116. |
| K1813.1.1 | Disguised husband shows his wife that he is not repulsive, as she thinks him. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K1813.1.2 | Disguised husband shows his wife that he is not a good-for-nothing as she thinks him. Chinese: Graham. |
| K1813.2 | Disguised husband spies on his faithless wife. Icelandic: Hervarar saga 45—46, 122—23, Boberg. |
| K1814 | Woman in disguise wooed by her faithless husband. *Bédier Fabliaux 448; *BP IV 254 n. 1, Italian: Basile Pentamerone V No. 6, *Rotunda; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K1814.1 | Prince disguised as merchant seduces a queen. (Cf. K1349.3.1.) Italian Novella: Rotunda; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1814.2 | Wife substitutes for princess, who has been jailed with husband. Before judge says: "What harm is there in a man being with his own wife?" India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1814.3 | Wife disguised as fakir makes her husband, the king, fulfill her will. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1814.4 | Husband twits wife regarding "bought kiss"; she makes him buy one from her by disguising herself. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1815 | Humble disguise. (Cap o' Rushes, Peau d'âne Allerleirauh.) Usually in rough clothing. (Cf. K521.4.3, K1812, K1816.) Type 510B; BP II 45ff.; **Cox passim; Cosquin Etudes 4f.; Icelandic: Boberg; Irish myth: *Cross; English: Wells 9 (King Horn); Italian Novella: Rotunda; Greek: *Frazer Apollodorus II 226 n. 2; Japanese: Ikeda; N. A. Indian (Ojibwa): Laidlaw Ontario Archeological Report (1918) 36 No. 111, (California): Gayton and Newman 95. |
| K1815.0.1 | Disguise with hood dropping low over the face. Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 43 (Odin), *Boberg. |
| K1815.1 | Return home in humble disguise. *Type 935. |
| K1815.1.1 | Pious pilgrim dies unknown in his father's house. (Miraculous manifestations.) BP III 461 (Grimm No. 204). |
| K1815.2 | Ugly disguise. India: *Thompson-Balys; Samoa: Beckwith Myth 254. |
| K1816 | Disguise as menial. *Types 314, 870; Irish myth: *Cross; French Canadian: Barbeau JAFL XXIX 14; Italian: Basile Pentamerone II No. 7, IV No. 10; Arabian: Burton Arabian Nights S II 203; India: *Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Ikeda; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 21. |
| K1816.0.1 | God disguised as menial. Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 85; Greek: *Frazer Apollodorus I 390 n. 1. |
| K1816.0.2 | Girl in menial disguise at lover's court. *Types 511, 870; *Cox passim; *BP III 60, 443; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. Nos. 120—124, Italian: Basile Pentamerone III No. 3, *Rotunda. |
| K1816.0.3 | Menial disguise of princess's lover. *Types 301, 314, 900; *BP I 446; Child V 109ff., 116ff., 305a; Wells 14 (The Lay of Havelok) 19 (Sir Beves of Hamtoun), 147 (Ipomadon); Icelandic: *Boberg; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; Tuamotu: Stimson MS (z-G. 13/10, 221, 343). |
| K1816.0.3.1 | Hero in menial disguise at heroine's wedding. Types 300, 301, 303; Irish myth: *Cross; Welsh: MacCulloch Celtic 94. See nearly all references to N681. |
| K1816.0.4 | Scholar disguised as a rustic along road answers questions of school inspector in Greek, Latin, and Hebrew. England, Scotland, Wales: *Baughman. |
| K1816.1 | Gardener disguise. *Types 314, 502, 900; *BP I 446. |
| K1816.2 | Pope disguised as caulker. Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "calfat". |
| K1816.3 | Disguise as woodcutter. Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "casseur". |
| K1816.4 | Disguise as potter. *Kittredge Witchcraft 394 n. 109. |
| K1816.5 | Disguise as goose-girl (turkey-girl). *Type 533; *BP II 273ff.; Köhler-Bolte I 347; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "gardeuse", "dindons". |
| K1816.5.1 | Disguise as tender of birds. Africa (Western Sudan): Equilbecq I 227ff. No. 7, (Madagascar): Renel I 144ff. No. 26, I 148ff. No. 27. |
| K1816.6 | Disguise as herdsman (shepherd, swineherd, etc.) DeVries FFC LXXIII 324; Schoepperle II 583 s.v. "disguises"; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| K1816.7 | Disguise as porter. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1816.8 | Disguise as stable-boy. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1816.9 | Disguise as peasant. |
| K1816.9.1 | Wise men disguise as peasants. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1816.10 | Disguise as cobbler (shoemaker). |
| K1816.10.1 | Nobleman disguises as cobbler to woo woodcutter's daughter. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1816.11 | Disguise as carpenter. Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| K1816.12 | Disguise as smith. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| K1816.13 | Disguise as slave. Greek: Odyssey IV 245; Africa (Upoto): Einstein 133. |
| K1817 | Disguise as wanderer. Italian Novella: Rotunda; Icelandic: *Boberg; Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1817.1 | Disguise as beggar (pauper). *Type 900; *BP I 443ff.; Schoepperle II 583 s.v. "disguises"; *Hdwb. d. Märchens I 250b; Child I 189, 191f., 202—207, III 157, 179, 191ff., 271ff., V 2ff., 279f. Irish: O'Suilleabhain 24, 42, 45, Beal XXI 307, 315f., *Cross; English: Wells 11 (Horn Childe and Maiden Rimnild); Icelandic: *Boberg; Spanish: Espinosa II Nos. 133—135, III No. 192, Espinosa Jr. Nos. 145, 210; Greek: *Frazer Apollodorus II 299 n. 3; Jewish: *Neuman; Arabian: Burton Nights I 67; India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 249 No. 193; Korean: Zong in-Sob 116 No. 58; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 393. |
| K1817.1.1 | Disguise as fakir. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K1817.2 | Disguise as palmer (pilgrim). Thien Motive 16; *Boje XIX 70f.; English: Wells 9 (King Horn); Icelandic: FSS 230—32, 252, Boberg; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1817.3 | Disguise as harper (minstrel). *Type 900; *BP I 446; *Boje XIX 70f., Thien Motive 16; *Hibbard 93 n. 9; English: Wells 9 (King Horn); Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| K1817.3.1 | Disguise as poet. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| K1817.4 | Disguise as merchant. Schoepperle II 583 s.v. "disguises"; Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. Nos. 142—145; Italian Novella: Rotunda; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| K1817.4.1 | Disguise as peddler. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1817.4.1.1 | Queen disguised as peddler. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K1817.4.1.1.1 | Queen disguised as peddler sells children poisoned cheese. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K1817.5 | Disguise as gypsy. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1818 | Disguise as sick man. *Type 3; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Boberg; Jewish: *Neuman; Arabian: Burton Nights S V 285; Japanese: Ikeda; West Indies: Flowers 546. |
| K1818.1 | Disguise as leper. Irish myth: *Cross; English: Wells 143 (Generydes); Tonga: Gifford 193. |
| K1818.2 | Scald-head disguise. To avoid having his gold hair seen, the hero covers his head with a cloth and says that he has the scaldhead. *Types 314, 502; *BP III 109; *Chauvin VI 51 No. 217 n. 3; Missouri French: Carrière. |
| K1818.3 | Disguise as madman (fool). *Type 900; *BP I 446; Schoepperle II 583 s.v. "disguises"; *Liebrecht 141ff.; *Hibbard 227; Malone PMLA XLIII 400; Greek: *Frazer Apollodorus II 176 n. 2; Irish myth: Cross; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K1818.3.1 | Wise man disguised as buffoon. Irish myth: Cross. |
| K1818.3.2 | Lover approaches mistress disguised as fool. Irish myth: Cross. |
| K1818.3.3 | Sharp man pretends to be stupid so as to be included in plans and conversation of plotters. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1818.4 | Disguise as deformed men to secure entertainment. Japanese: Anesaki 361. |
| K1818.5 | Animal feigns lameness. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1818.6 | Deception by pretended faint. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1821 | Disguise by changing bodily appearance. Missouri French: Carrière. |
| K1821.1 | Disguise by dyeing beard. Youths have been advised never to serve a man with a red beard. The trickster dyes his beard black. Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 53 No. 400B*. |
| K1821.2 | Disguise by painting body. Boje XIX 67ff.; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 443; Africa (Mambettu): Casati Ten Years in Equatoria (London, 1891) I 162. |
| K1821.3 | Disguise by veiling face. |
| K1821.3.1 | Veiled adulteress flees with paramour who has enlisted duped husband's aid. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1821.4 | Youths wear false beards (of grass, wool). Irish myth: *Cross. |
| K1821.4.1 | Disguise as hairy man by putting on lambskins. Jewish: Neuman. |
| K1821.5 | Disguise by dyeing complexion. Irish myth: Cross. |
| K1821.6 | Disguise by cutting one eye out. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| K1821.7 | Beautiful woman in hideous disguise. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| K1821.7.1 | Beautiful woman blackens face as disguise. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1821.8 | Disguise as old man. Icelandic: *Boberg; Jewish: *Neuman; Marquesas: Handy 127; Maori: Beckwith 250. |
| K1821.9 | Disguise in wooden covering. *Type 510; *Cox Cinderella 1-121 passim. |
| K1821.9.1 | Disguise in bark of birch. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| K1821.10 | Disguise by cutting off hair. Jewish: Neuman. |
| K1822 | Animal disguises as human being. (Cf. K1825.1.5.) India: Thompson-Balys; Africa (Ila, Rhodesia): Smith and Dale II 395 No. 18. |
| K1822.1 | Lion disguised as monk. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1822.2 | Fox disguised as scholar. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1822.3 | Bad breath and forked tongue reveal identity of snake-king in guise of human. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1822.4 | Tiger disguises as human being. Chinese: Graham. |
| K1823 | Man disguises as animal. |
| K1823.1 | Man disguises as tortoise. East Africa: Woodward FL XXXVI 182ff. No. 2. |
| K1823.2 | Man disguised as elephant. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1823.3 | Man disguised as lamb. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1823.4 | Man disguised as bear. Jewish: Neuman. |
| K1823.5 | Satan disguised as deer. (Cf. K1811.) Jewish: Neuman. |
| K1824 | Disguise as layman. Priest disguises as layman. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1825 | Disguise as professional man. |
| K1825.1 | Disguise as doctor. Chinese: Werner 275. |
| K1825.1.1 | Lover masks as doctor to reach sweetheart. Chauvin V 227f. No. 130; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| K1825.1.1.1 | Girl disguised as doctor exposes queen's paramour who is masquerading as woman. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1825.1.2 | Poor girl masks as doctor and is made court physician. Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 68 No. 515*. |
| K1825.1.3 | Trickster masks as doctor and punishes his cheaters. *Type 1538; *BP III 394 (5); *Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin II 213 No. 437. |
| K1825.1.4 | Girl masks as doctor to find departed lover. *Type 434; *Köhler-Bolte I 335. |
| K1825.1.5 | Animal disguised as doctor. (Cf. K1822.) Africa (Angola): Chatelain 190 No. 23. |
| K1825.1.6 | Disguise as physician to poison enemies. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K1825.2 | Woman masks as lawyer (judge) and frees her husband. *Type 890; Icelandic: Boberg. Cf. Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice. |
| K1825.3 | Disguise as barber. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1825.4 | Disguise as hospitaller. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| K1825.5 | Disguise as soldier. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman. |
| K1825.6 | Disguise as dancer. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1825.7 | Twelve men in disguise as carpenters are engaged to build hall for the king's wedding: they abduct the bride. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| K1825.8 | Disguise as astrologer. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K1826 | Disguise as churchman (cleric). Irish myth: *Cross. |
| K1826.1 | Disguise as monk. Schoepperle II 583 s.v. "disguises"; Icelandic: *Boberg; Irish myth: *Cross; Spanish: Espinosa III No. 192; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; West Indies: Flowers 546. |
| K1826.1.1 | Lover disguised as monk or friar meets sweetheart. Heptameron No. 21. |
| K1826.2 | Disguise as ascetic. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K1826.3 | Lover masks as anchorite to reach sweetheart. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| K1826.4 | Disguise as missionary. S. A. Indian (Toba): Métraux MAFLS XL 135. |
| K1826.5 | Disguise as priest. Korean: Zong in-Sob 212 No. 98. |
| K1826.5.1 | Bishop disguised as priest. Irish myth: Cross. |
| K1827 | Disguise as holy man. |
| K1827.0.1 | Ogre disguised as holy man. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1827.0.2 | Barber passes for a brahmin. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1827.1 | Disguise as saint. Man beats wife for spending too much time at church. Wife has maids dress as her patron saints and when the husband repeats the beating she calls on them for help. The husband is beaten. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1827.2 | Disguise as yogi. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1828 | Disguise as deity (or spirit). Africa (Fang): Einstein 162, (Bambula): Einstein 165, (Wachaga): Gutmann 187, (Bangala): Weeks 113. |
| K1828.1 | Disguise as angel. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1828.1.1 | Woman disguised as angel of death. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1828.2 | Disguise as goddess. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1831 | Service under a false name. *Dickson 220f. nn. 13, 14; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| K1831.0.1 | Disguise by changing name. Irish myth: Cross. |
| K1831.1 | Shipwrecked men call themselves by false names. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| K1831.2 | Service in disguise. Icelandic: *Boberg; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1831.2.1 | Service in disguise in order to seduce king's daughter by putting love charm in her food. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| K1831.2.2 | Lover in disguise as duke's son takes service under king with his followers in order to abduct his sister. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| K1832 | Disguise by changing voice. *Type 123; BP I 37; Missouri French: Carrière; Jewish: *Neuman; Papua: Ker 31, 41; Mono-Alu: Wheeler No. 52; S. A. Indian (Amuesha): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 150, (Jivaro): ibid. 148; Africa (Fang): Tessman 109f. |
| K1833 | Disguise as ghost. Fb "sp[ö]gelse" III 522b; Danish: Kristensen Danske Sagn IV (1896) 356ff., 215ff.; Icelandic: Boberg; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1834 | Multiple disguise: one person disguising successively seems to be many. India: Thompson-Balys; Africa (Nyang): Ittman 62f. |
| K1835 | Disguise for spying. (Cf. K1812.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1836.1 | Husband disguises as woman to spy on wife. (Cf. K1835.) Icelandic: Boberg; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1836.2 | Boy disguises as woman to embarrass incontinent priest. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1836.3 | Disguised man takes bride's place: deserts, leaving a she-goat in his place for the foolish bridegroom. (Cf. K1223.1.) Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 1686*; Russian: Andrejev No. 1538 I*. |
| K1836.4 | Disguise as a weeping woman to attract attention. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1837 | Disguise of woman in man's clothes. (Cf. K1825.) *Types 514, 880, 881, 882, 883A, 884, 890; *BP II 57f.; Penzer III 46f.; Boje XIX 70f.; Alphabet No. 318; Heptameron No. 31. — Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Missouri French: Carrière; Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 58, 68, 104 Nos. 455, 515, *857; Italian: Basile Pentamerone III Nos. 3, 6, IV No. 6, *Rotunda; India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Werner 275; Indonesia: DeVries's list No. 222. |
| K1837.1 | Boasting coward exposed by wife who masks as highwayman and robs him. Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 142 No. 1710. |
| K1837.2 | Woman disguised as pilgrim engages lover in conversation and learns of his faithlessness. (Cf. K1817.2.) Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 26; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1837.3 | Repentant nurse disguises as hermit. Spanish: Childers; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1837.4 | Girl in man's clothes avenges her father. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| K1837.5 | Wife disguises as a man and outwits landlord of inn when he tries same trick he has played on her husband to get all of his goods, etc. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1837.6 | Disguise of woman as a soldier. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| K1837.7 | Virgin living disguised as a man and unrecognized in a monastery becomes abbot (St. Eugenia). *Loomis White Magic 110f.; Irish myth: Cross. |
| K1837.8 | Woman in male disguise made king. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1837.8.1 | Woman in male disguise made minister. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1838 | Disguise as devil. Priest disguises as devil and "haunts" neighbor's house. Buys it cheaply. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1838.1 | Tricksters change man's furniture. He thinks it is the work of demons. He sells them his house cheaply. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1839 | Other deceptions by disguise. |
| K1839.1 | Wolf puts flour on his paw to disguise himself. *Type 333; *BP I 42; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "farine"; Japanese: Ikeda; Korean: Zong in-Sob 9 No. 3. |
| K1839.2 | Girl marries lover who thought her dead. On reviving she changes her name and disguises her appearance. Eventually marries her former lover. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
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