K32M. A false wife is a supernatural character.

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A false wife who replaces a real supernatural character - a zoomorphic creature, a dead person, a female spirit, etc. See motif K32.

SW Africa. Bushmen [jackal]; Hottentots: Schmidt 2007, No. 16 [frog], 17 [spirit of the dead]: 41-45, 45-54.

Bantu-speaking Africa. Zulu [lizard]; suto [lizard]; kiniramba [porcupine].

West Africa. Tenda [frog]: Ferry 1983, No. 48:269-285; mundang [frog]: Louafaya 1990:117-120

Melanesia. Kiwai [híwai-abére spirit]; Dauan [spirit dórgai]; San Cristobal [Warungarae spirit]; kanaka [woman-spirit].

Micronesia-Polynesia. Ponape [cannibal]; Marshall Islands (Kuwajleen) [water spirit]; Kapingamarangi [eitu water spirit]; Bellona [Sinangeitataki water spirit or 'apai]; Pukapuka [ underwater woman-rock]; Tuamotu [Kio water spirit]; Manihiki [water spirit].

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Lepcha [witch]; best [Tonulawki spirit].

Burma - Indochina. Khao [crow]; Vieta [lizard].

South Asia. Bengalis [Sankchinni spirit]; muria [spirit of the dead].

Malaysia-Indonesia. Toraja [lise spirit]; Timor [Rica-Bai cannibal].

Central Europe. Russians (Akhangelskaya) [Yagishna].

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Dargins [witch's daughter].

Baltoscandia. Lithuanians [witch daughter]; Latvians [Laume]; Estonians [witch's daughter]; Seto [devil's daughter]; Karelians [Sueyatar]; Western Sami: Klaus 1995 [beetle larva, bad smells]: 23-25; Pollan 2005, No. 15 [smells bad]: 76-79.

Volga - Perm. Mordva [Vardyne].

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Altaians [shulmusikha]; Shors [Aina woman (evil spirit)].

Western Siberia. Northern Khanty (p. Son) [Por woman]; Southern Selkups [frog].

Eastern Siberia. Central Yakuts (Western 1950, 2nd Nakharinsky Nasleg of Megino-Kangalassky Ulus) [an old woman who seems to have half her head scorched, her house is half a house, a stove is half a furnace, etc.]: Illarionov et al. 2008, No. 18:195-219; North-Western Yakuts [Dyege-Baaba, she has eight eyes and a bull nose]: Gurvich 1977:175-176; northeastern (Verkhoyan) Yakuts [=Ergis 1964, No. 51:172-177; devil's daughter with with one leg, one hand, one eye]: Khudyakov 1890, No. 4:80-89; Evenki (upper reaches of Nizhnyaya Tunguska) [Chulugdy's cannibal].

Amur - Sakhalin. Orochi [Pegeliktu ("Sheared")]; Nanais [Ambaktu; fox]; Negidals [frog]; Wilta [frog].

Japan. Ainu Hokkaido [fox]; Japanese [cannibal/devil Amanojaku].

SV Asia. Chukchi [black beetle]: Bogoras 1902:657-658 (=1928, No. 1:318-320); coastal Koryaks [frog; Sasusangavyt]; itelmen [lizard]; Russified, probably tundra and forest Yukaghirs [Yagishna, Mythical Woman].

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.

The coast is the Plateau. Quarry [wolverine]; chilcotin [bear]; shuswap [bear]; tillamook [Wild Woman].

Northeast. Malesit [Poktcinskwes spirit].

California. Maidu [frog]; yana [frog].

The Great Southwest. Zunyi [turns into a crow].

Llanos. Sicuani [Fox].

Guiana. Trio [Kaikë spirit].

Western Amazon. Aguaruna [frog]; andoque [toad]; chikuna [ba'ë spirit].

Montagna. Machigenga [toad; forest dog]; kashibo [forest spirit].

Bolivia - Guaporé. Takana (cavinha) [toad]: Nordenskiöld 1924:291-292; chiriguano [dead].

Chaco. Maca [fox]; toba [fox]; pilaga [fox]; mokovi [fox].