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

Motif

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.

Deceptions. · Deception through shams. · Impostures. · Marital impostors. · view the constellation · filed as K1911.1.4

Scholars’ trail — 6references

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.

LithuanianBalys Index No. 446*
RussianAndrejev No. 533B*
ItalianBasile Pentamerone Introduction
India*Thompson-Balys
Africa (Angola)Chatelain 35, 43.
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 when child is born 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 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

The Ghoulish Schoolmaster and the Stone of Pity · ATU 8941 recorded variant

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