μῦθοι Mythoi
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Filed under The false bride (substituted bride). An impostor takes the wife's place without the husband's knowledge and banishes (kills, transforms) the wife.

10 finer motifs beneath it
False bride takes true bride's place on the way to the weddingFalse bride takes true bride's place when child is bornFalse 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 herFalse 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 slaveOld woman substituted for bride in bridegroom's bedShe-bear as false bride. Compels true bride to exchange placesGhost-ogress pushes bride into hole in tree and takes her placeFalse bride steals true bride's garments in bathPrince substitutes peasant girl for the king's daughter he has got for his father but with whom he himself has fallen in loveImpostor kills fairy, hides body and dresses in fairy's clothes
Filed beside it
Treacherous disposal of true bride by falseReinstatement of true brideMan in woman's clothing poses as bride for beggarPenniless bride pretends to wealth

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