True bride reinstated by acting as mysterious housekeeper — Mythoi

Motif

True bride reinstated by acting as mysterious housekeeper.

Deceptions. · Deception through shams. · Impostures. · Marital impostors. · view the constellation · filed as K1911.3.5

Filed across the traditions

Africa (Hottentot) Karutz Des schwarzen Menschen Märchenweisheit (London, 1929) 140f. No. 27.

Within the index

Filed under Reinstatement of true bride.

Filed beside it

Substitution of false bride revealed by animal True bride takes house near husband. Thus eventually secures his attention False bride fails when husband tests her. Uses slipper test, jumping test, or the like True bride reincarnated as reed reveals truth Snake adopts true bride thrown into well

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