Motif
animal made fearsome by wearing another animal’s skin
animal_made_fearsome_by_wearing_another_animal_s_skin
A motif of the Trickster and Boundary Crosser family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
buddhist
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Buddhist birth stories; or, Jataka tales, Volume 1 SUPPLEMENTARY TABLES. / THE BIRTH STORIES. / INDEX 339 / INTRODUCTION.; lines 363-474 confidence: high
A hawker travels with goods carried by an ass; when he removes the pack, he clothes the ass in a lion’s skin and turns it loose in rice and barley fields.
The hawker clothes the ass in a lion’s skin, and the watchmen avoid it because they take it for a lion.
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