False bride takes true bride's place when child is born — Mythoi

Motif

False bride takes true bride's place when child is born.

Deceptions. · Deception through shams. · Impostures. · Marital impostors. · view the constellation · filed as K1911.1.2

Filed across the traditions

India Thompson-Balys
N. Am. Indian *Thompson CColl II 383ff.
general *Types 403, 450, 480
general *BP I 79ff., 99ff., II 284 n. 2
general *Arfert Unterschobene Braut

Within the index

Filed under Circumstances of substitution of false bride.

Filed beside it

False bride takes true bride's place on the way to the wedding False bride takes true bride's place at fountain. The true bride, left by her husband for a short time at a fountain, is supplanted by a moor or gypsy, who transforms her False bride finishes true bride's task and supplants her. The true bride must perform a certain task to win her husband and, being exhausted, commits the task to a slave Old woman substituted for bride in bridegroom's bed She-bear as false bride. Compels true bride to exchange places Ghost-ogress pushes bride into hole in tree and takes her place False bride steals true bride's garments in bath Prince substitutes peasant girl for the king's daughter he has got for his father but with whom he himself has fallen in love Impostor kills fairy, hides body and dresses in fairy's clothes

Carried in tale types

Little Brother and Little Sister · ATU 450 8 recorded variants
The Black and the White Bride · ATU 403 4 recorded variants

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