Marital impostors — Mythoi

Motif

Marital impostors.

Deceptions. · Deception through shams. · Impostures. · Marital impostors. · view the constellation · filed as K1910

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8 finer motifs beneath it

The false bride (substituted bride). An impostor takes the wife's place without the husband's knowledge and banishes (kills, transforms) the wife The false virgin. Various deceptions practiced to mask bride as virgin Abductor pretends to have been sent to fetch princess by lover The false bridegroom (substitute bridegroom). Takes the place of the true bridegroom Robber bridegroom. Robber marries girl under pretence of being a fine gentleman Penniless bridegroom pretends to wealth Monster disguises and wins girl. Borrows wedding garments one by one; later returns them one by one and reveals monster form Marital impostors – miscellaneous

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