μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Parents exchange children.

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

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Filed under Substituted children.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Son of the king and of the smith exchanged Two mothers exchange their children, a boy and a girl Queen changes her own ugly twins for slave's pretty son. Later recognizes the better character of the twins, and changes back again
Filed beside it
Woman substitutes child for her own and sells it. Exchanges sleeping places The false heir Barren wife makes child by magic and claims it as her own False daughter: accepted as one's resurrected child

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