μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

True bride pushed into water by false.

Deceptions. · Deception through shams. · Impostures. · Marital impostors. · view the constellation · filed as K1911.2.2

Filed across the traditions
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Japanese Ikeda.
  • general *Types 408, 450
Within the index

Filed under Treacherous disposal of true bride by false.

2 finer motifs beneath it
True bride lives in fish's belly True bride sits spinning at the bottom of river
Filed beside it
True bride transformed by false True bride's children thrown away at birth (by false bride)
Carried in tale types

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