The constellation
K1223 Mistress deceives lover with a substitute
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The same sky, in words
filed under
- Humiliated or baffled lovers · K1210 entry
beneath it
- Bride escapes from foolish husband and leaves goat as substitute in bed · K1223.1 entry
- Mistress sends man's own wife as substitute without his knowledge · K1223.2 entry
- Wife (mistress) substitutes for mistress (wife). The woman has been asked for a rendezvous. She tells the suitor's wife and they exchange places · K1223.3 entry
- Chaste woman substitutes corpse for herself in the bed of an insistent suitor · K1223.4 entry
- King's daughter deceives king by substituting her maid · K1223.5 entry
carried in tale type
- Old Woman Substitute · ATU 1441*