Blind fiancée betrays self. Mistakes one object for another — Mythoi

Motif

Blind fiancée betrays self. Mistakes one object for another.

Deceptions. · Deception through shams. · Impostures. · Other impostures. · view the constellation · filed as K1984.5

Cited in the index

general *Type 1456
general BP III 237
general *Fb "bejler" IV 31b.

Within the index

Filed under Girls keep up appearances to deceive suitors as to their desirability.

Filed beside it

The lisping sisters. The girls have been warned against speaking, but forget and are found out The girl who ate so little. When the suitor sees her baking he finds that she can eat The girl with the ugly name. Her mother gives her a new one but the girl does not recognize it and her mother must call her by her old name Ugly women complain of falling flowers. King hearing them supposes them delicate and beautiful

Carried in tale types

The Blind Fianc'e · ATU 1456 1 recorded variant

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