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Motifs — first 20 of 46
- Country of thieves and impostors. F709.3
- Identity tested by demanding that person say again what he said on former occasion. (Impostor fails.) H15.1
- Impostor of low origin recognized by habitual speech. H38.2
- False dragon-head proof. Impostor cuts off dragon heads (after tongues have been removed) and attempts to use them as proof of slaying the dragon. H105.1.1
- The emperor's new clothes. An impostor feigns to make clothes for the emperor and says that they are visible only to those of legitimate birth. The emperor and courtiers are all afraid to admit that they cannot see the clothes. Finally a child seeing the naked emperor reveals the imposture. K445
- Seduction by impostor. K1315
- Girl takes place of impostor in marriage bed; impostor's mother beats her, thinking she is heroine. K1611.3
- Marital impostors. K1910
- The false bride (substituted bride). An impostor takes the wife's place without the husband's knowledge and banishes (kills, transforms) the wife. K1911
- Impostor kills fairy, hides body and dresses in fairy's clothes. K1911.1.10
- Man wins girl's love by pretending to wealth and nobility. Deception is discovered and impostor is banished. K1917.5
- Marital impostors – miscellaneous. K1919
- Treacherous impostors. K1930
- Impostors abandon (or kill) their companion and usurp his place. K1931
- Impostors throw hero overboard into sea. K1931.1
- Impostor tries to push foster brother into the water and then cuts rope so that he drifts alone out on the sea in boat without oars. K1931.1.1
- Impostors abandon hero in lower world. Usually let rope drop on which he is to be raised. K1931.2
- Impostors kill hero. K1931.3
- Impostors throw hero into pit. K1931.4
- Impostors throw hero into prison. K1931.5