K32K. A false wife is a beetle or larva. .31.39.40.
A false wife who replaces the real one is a malodorous beetle or larva.
Western Sami, Chukchi, Asian Eskimos, St. Lawrence, the inupiate of Northern Alaska.
Baltoscandia. Western Sami: Klaus 1995 [beetle larva, smells bad]: 23-25; Pollan 2005, No. 15 [smells bad]: 76-79.
SV Asia. Chukchi [black beetle]: Bogoras 1902:657-658 (=1928, No. 1:318-320).
The Arctic. Asian Eskimos (Chaplino) [beetle]: Rubtsova 1954, No. 38:411-413; St. Lawrence [beetle]: Slwooko 1979:34-41; Northern Alaska Inupiate (Noatak): Hall 1975, No. EH5 [caterpillar], M34 [apparently a beetle: it has bugs in her hair and has a bad smell]: 81-83, 204-206.