Husband's twin brother mistaken by woman for her husband

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

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Scholars’ trail — 5references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

IcelandicBoberg
ItalianBasile Pentamerone I Nos. 7, 9, Rotunda
India*Thompson-Balys.
general *Type 303
general *BP I 528ff.

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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 30312 recorded variants

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