μῦθοι Mythoi
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  • Missouri FrenchCarrière.
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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.

3 finer motifs beneath it
True bride transformed by falseTrue bride pushed into water by falseTrue bride's children thrown away at birth (by false bride)
Filed beside it
Circumstances of substitution of false brideReinstatement of true brideMan in woman's clothing poses as bride for beggarPenniless bride pretends to wealth

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