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

Filed across the traditions
  • Spanish Boggs FFC XC 61, 82 Nos. 445B*, 708A*
  • Italian Basile Pentamerone Int., III No. 10, V No. 9
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Chinese Graham, Eberhard FFC CXX 47f.
  • Korean Zong in-Sob 48 No. 28
  • Indonesia DeVries's list No. 177
  • N. Am. Indian *Thompson Tales 350 nn. 262, 265
  • Africa Werner 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 bride Treacherous disposal of true bride by false Reinstatement of true bride Man in woman's clothing poses as bride for beggar Penniless bride pretends to wealth
Filed beside it
The false virgin. Various deceptions practiced to mask bride as virgin Abductor pretends to have been sent to fetch princess by lover The false bridegroom (substitute bridegroom). Takes the place of the true bridegroom Robber bridegroom. Robber marries girl under pretence of being a fine gentleman Penniless bridegroom pretends to wealth Monster disguises and wins girl. Borrows wedding garments one by one; later returns them one by one and reveals monster form Marital impostors – miscellaneous
Carried in tale types

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