μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

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

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

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Scholars’ trail — 20references

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.

  • SpanishBoggs FFC XC 61, 82 Nos. 445B*, 708A*
  • ItalianBasile Pentamerone Int., III No. 10, V No. 9
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • ChineseGraham, Eberhard FFC CXX 47f.
  • KoreanZong in-Sob 48 No. 28
  • IndonesiaDeVries's list No. 177
  • N. Am. Indian*Thompson Tales 350 nn. 262, 265
  • AfricaWerner African 230, (Zulu): Callaway 75, 85, (Kaffir): Theal 67, (Bushman): Bleek and Lloyd 85ff.
  • general *Types 403, 408, 425, 450, 480, 510, 511, 533
  • general Tegethoff 20
  • general *BP I 79ff.
  • general *Huet RTP XXII 1ff.
  • general **Arfert Das Motiv von der unterschobenen Braut (Rostock, 1897)
  • general *M. Potanine Vostotchnye Motivy v srednevekom evropeiskom Epose (Moscow, 1899–see RTP XXII 8 n. 2)
  • general *Godden FL IV 142, 143 n. 1
  • general *Hepding Hessische Blätter fur Volkskunde V 161
  • general Cox 478, 501
  • general *Cosquin Contes indiens 61ff.
  • general Penzer VI 47 n. 1, 48, VIII 12ff., IX 55ff.
  • general *Fb "brud" IV 64b. – French Canadian: Barbeau JAFL XXIX 22, Sister Marie Ursule
Within the index

Filed under Marital impostors.

5 finer motifs beneath it
Circumstances of substitution of false brideTreacherous disposal of true bride by falseReinstatement of true brideMan in woman's clothing poses as bride for beggarPenniless bride pretends to wealth
Filed beside it
The false virgin. Various deceptions practiced to mask bride as virginAbductor pretends to have been sent to fetch princess by loverThe false bridegroom (substitute bridegroom). Takes the place of the true bridegroomRobber bridegroom. Robber marries girl under pretence of being a fine gentlemanPenniless bridegroom pretends to wealthMonster disguises and wins girl. Borrows wedding garments one by one; later returns them one by one and reveals monster formMarital impostors – miscellaneous
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