Motif
gender disguise carried to marriage
gender_disguise_carried_to_marriage
A motif of the Shapeshifter and Transformation family, within the sub-family Disguises and Recognition. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
roman
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The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 3940-3952 confidence: low
The explanation suggests possible origins in a damsel’s male disguise continued to marriage, or in an account of androgynous formation.
The passage proposes as a possible origin a damsel in male dress whose disguise continued to the point of marriage.
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