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Motifs
- Transformation to resemble man's mistress so as to be able to kill him. D40.2.1
- Right half of son resembles mortal father; left half, fairy father. F305.2.1
- Test: telling five lies which should so closely resemble the truth the tester will believe them himself. H509.5.1
- Race won by deception: relative helpers. One of the contestants places his relatives (or others that resemble him) in the line of the race. The opponent always thinks the trickster is just ahead of him. (Told of animals or of men; often of the hare and the turtle.) K11.1
- In order to save child from death, maid substitutes block dressed to resemble it. Enemy strikes block. K525.1.3
- Images set up to resemble watchmen. K1883.8
- Messengers seek wife for hero to resemble image they carry with them. T51.3.1
- Widowed she-fox rejects suitors who do not resemble her deceased husband. T211.6