Motif
Disguise in animal fable
disguise_in_animal_fable
A motif of the Trickster and Boundary Crosser family, within the sub-family Identity Disguises and Concealed Status. 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 THE BARLAAM AND JOSAPHAT LITERATURE. / SUMMARY. / PART II. / ON THE HISTORY OF THE BIRTH STORIES IN INDIA.; lines 2112-2201 confidence: low
“the Bodisat appears as a sort of chorus, a moralizer only, and not an actor in the play” and in many stories is a “rukkha-devatā--the fairy or genius of a tree.”
The passage names the fable of the Ass in the Lion’s Skin as an example in the discussed group of stories.
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