Motif
Animal-skin disguise for ambush among a herd
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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.
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greek
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The Odyssey BOOK II / BOOK III / TELEMACHUS VISITS NESTOR AT PYLOS. / BOOK IV; lines 1849-1948 confidence: high
At dawn the speaker takes three chosen men; Idothea fetches four seal skins, digs four pits, covers the men with the skins, and places ambrosia under their nostrils to mask the seal stench.
Idothea hides the speaker and three men in pits under freshly skinned seal skins so that Proteus counts them among the seals without suspecting guile.
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