Concealment

Concealment

See also Refuge.

Ali Baba

40 thieves concealed in oil jars. [Arab. Lit.: Arabian Nights]

ark of bulrushes

Moses hidden in basket to escape infanticide. [O.T.: Exodus 2:1–6]

Holgrave

hides his identity as the builder’s descendant and finds the concealed deed to the land. [Am. Lit.: Hawthorne The House of the Seven Gables]

Hooper, Parson

wears a black veil as a symbol of secret sorrow and sin. [Am. Lit.: Hawthorne “The Minister’s Black Veil” in Benét, 672]

Inigo and Gonsalve

Concepción’s would-be lovers; hides them in her husband’s clocks. [Fr. Opera: Ravel, The Spanish Hour, Westerman, 198]

Man in the Iron Mask

forced to perpetually wear an iron mask to conceal his indentity. [Br. Lit. and Fr. Hist.: Benét 628]

Polonius

Hamlet stabs him through the arras. [Br. Lit.: Hamlet]

sealed book

symbolic of impenetrable secrets. [Christian Symbolism: Appleton, 13]

veil of Isis

never lifted to reveal the face of the goddess. [Anc. Egypt. Myth.: Brewer Dictionary 492]

wilderness of Maon

where David sought refuge from Saul’s pursuit. [O. T.: I Samuel 23:25–29]

wilderness of Ziph

where David hid to escape Saul’s search. [O.T.: I Samuel 23:14]