Bride escapes from foolish husband and leaves goat as substitute in bed — Mythoi

Motif

Bride escapes from foolish husband and leaves goat as substitute in bed.

Deceptions. · Deception into humiliating position. · Humiliated or baffled lovers. · view the constellation · filed as K1223.1

Cited in the index

general *Type 1685
general *BP I 320.

Within the index

Filed under Mistress deceives lover with a substitute.

Filed beside it

Mistress sends man's own wife as substitute without his knowledge Wife (mistress) substitutes for mistress (wife). The woman has been asked for a rendezvous. She tells the suitor's wife and they exchange places Chaste woman substitutes corpse for herself in the bed of an insistent suitor King's daughter deceives king by substituting her maid

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Disguised man takes bride's place: deserts, leaving a she-goat in his place for the foolish bridegroom. (Cf. K1223.1.)

Carried in tale types

The Wedding Night · ATU 1686 1 recorded variant

ask the rhapsode about this motif · search the shelf for “substitute” · wander