Two mothers exchange their children, a boy and a girl

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Two mothers exchange their children, a boy and a girl.

Deceptions. · Deception through shams. · Impostures. · Substituted children. · view the constellation · filed as K1921.2

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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.

Irish myth*Cross.
general Type 975*

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Filed under Parents exchange children.

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Son of the king and of the smith exchanged Queen changes her own ugly twins for slave's pretty son. Later recognizes the better character of the twins, and changes back again

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