False bride fails when husband tests her. Uses slipper test, jumping test, or the like

Motif

False bride fails when husband tests her. Uses slipper test, jumping test, or the like.

Deceptions. · Deception through shams. · Impostures. · Marital impostors. · view the constellation · filed as K1911.3.3

Scholars’ trail — 5references

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.

India*Thompson-Balys
ChineseEberhard FFC CXX 22f.
Africa (Zulu)Callaway 122, 315, (Angola): Chatelain 43.
general *Type 510
general *Cox passim

Within the index

Filed under Reinstatement of true bride.

2 finer motifs beneath it

False bride's mutilated feet. In order to wear the shoes with which the husband is testing the identity of his bride, the false bride cuts her feet. She is detected False bride fails when magician tests her

Filed beside it

Substitution of false bride revealed by animal True bride takes house near husband. Thus eventually secures his attention True bride reincarnated as reed reveals truth True bride reinstated by acting as mysterious housekeeper Snake adopts true bride thrown into well

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