μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

The false heir.

Deceptions. · Deception through shams. · Impostures. · Substituted children. · view the constellation · filed as K1923

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6 finer motifs beneath it
Nurse exchanges children so that the preferred child will be assured of wealth Man is made to believe that his married daughter has borne a child. In reality it is a foundling. When the supposed mother dies her father is about to forfeit dowry, when the child's real parents claim him Barren woman pretends to bear child. Substitutes another woman's child Woman pretends to be mother of child chosen to be king Midwife takes child and substitutes it for king's stillborn child Queen passes off girl-child as boy by having pandits say raja must not see his son for twelve years
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Parents exchange children Woman substitutes child for her own and sells it. Exchanges sleeping places Barren wife makes child by magic and claims it as her own False daughter: accepted as one's resurrected child

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