Monster disguises and wins girl. Borrows wedding garments one by one; later returns them one by one and reveals monster form

Motif

Monster disguises and wins girl. Borrows wedding garments one by one; later returns them one by one and reveals monster form.

Deceptions. · Deception through shams. · Impostures. · Marital impostors. · view the constellation · filed as K1918

Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

Jamaica*Beckwith MAFLS XVII 273 No. 85
West IndiesFlowers 548.

Within the index

Filed under Marital impostors.

1 finer motif beneath it

Ugly fish borrows skin of handsome fish for courtship and marriage

Filed beside it

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

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