Why women do not woo

Motif

Why women do not woo.

Mythological motifs. · Creation and ordering of human life. · Origin of customs. · Origin of customs of courtship and marriage. · view the constellation · filed as A1551

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In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Greco-RomanThe Aeneid, Book 11
Greco-RomanThe Aeneid, Book 12
Greco-RomanThe Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK III, ch. X

Scholars’ trail — 3references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

EsthonianFFC XXV 142 No. 18
JewishNeuman
S. Am. Indian (Toba)Métraux MAFLS XL 54.

Within the index

Filed under Origin of customs of courtship and marriage.

Filed beside it

Marriage between close relatives Origin of exogamy and endogamy Origin of love-songs Origin of marriage Origin of sexual restrictions Why woman is master of her husband. (Cf. A1372.9.)Origin of divorce Origin of customs of courtship and marriage – miscellaneous

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