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Filed under Substituted children.

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Nurse exchanges children so that the preferred child will be assured of wealthMan 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 himBarren woman pretends to bear child. Substitutes another woman's childWoman pretends to be mother of child chosen to be kingMidwife takes child and substitutes it for king's stillborn childQueen 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 childrenWoman substitutes child for her own and sells it. Exchanges sleeping placesBarren wife makes child by magic and claims it as her ownFalse daughter: accepted as one's resurrected child

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