Daughter promised to animal suitor

Motif

Daughter promised to animal suitor.

Animals. · Marriage of person to animal. · Animal suitor. · view the constellation · filed as B620.1

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.

JapaneseIkeda. – Africa (Angola): Chatelain 65 No. 3.
general *Types 425, 552
general *BP II 232 III 424ff. India: Thompson-Balys

Within the index

Filed under Animal suitor.

Filed beside it

Beast as suitor Reptile as wooer Bird as wooer Fish as wooer

Travels with

Child promised to animal. (Cf. B620.1.)Daughter promised to tiger in marriage for help in carrying load. (Cf. B620.1.)Daughter unwittingly promised to dog rescuer. (Cf. B620.1.) Without knowing that a dog has rescued her, the father offers her in marriage to her rescuer

Carried in tale types

The Animal as Bridegroom · ATU 425A24 recorded variants
The Girls Who Married Animals · ATU 5524 recorded variants

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