The constellation
K1355 Altered letter of execution gives princess to hero. On his way robbers steal the letter and change it so that instead of being killed he is married to the princess
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The same sky, in words
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carried in tale type
- The Prophecy · ATU 930
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- The weeping bitch. A procuress throws pepper into the eyes of a bitch so that she weeps. She pretends to the virtuous woman that the bitch is a woman transformed because of failure to respond to her lover. The woman is persuaded · K1351 entry
- Death feigned to woo maiden. She shows remorse when she hears of lover's death · K1352 entry
- Woman deceived into sacrificing honor. Ruler promises to release her brother (husband) but afterward refuses to do so · K1353 entry
- Seduction by bearing false order from husband or father · K1354 entry
- Lover's gift regained. The husband appears before payment can be made to wife · K1357 entry
- Girl shows herself naked in return for youth's dancing hogs · K1358 entry
- Beggar buys right to sleep before the girl's door, at foot of bed, in the bed. Usually with jewel · K1361 entry
- Innocent girl sells her "love" and later receives it back. When she tells her mother what has happened, she is beaten. Thinking to right matters, she demands that the knight return what he has taken. (Sequel: K1275.) · K1362 entry
- Seduction of person ignorant of sexual intercourse · K1363 entry
- Woman abducted by giving her medicine which appears to have killed her · K1364 entry