Husband's twin brother mistaken by woman for her husband — Mythoi

Motif

Husband's twin brother mistaken by woman for her husband.

Deceptions. · Seduction or deceptive marriage. · Seduction by disguise or substitution. · view the constellation · filed as K1311.1

Filed across the traditions

Icelandic Boberg
Italian Basile Pentamerone I Nos. 7, 9, Rotunda
India *Thompson-Balys.
general *Type 303
general *BP I 528ff.

Within the index

Filed under Seduction by masking as woman's husband.

Filed beside it

Seduction by masking as woman's husband: "Why – you have just left!" After the seduction the husband comes and the wife shows surprise Trickster kills husband and puts on his skin so as to seduce wife

Carried in tale types

The Twins or Blood-Brothers · ATU 303 12 recorded variants

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