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Motif

Forgotten fiancée. Young husband visiting his home breaks tabu and forgets his wife. Later she succeeds in reawakening his memory. (For details of the ways in which the memory is lost and regained see D2004 and D2006.

Magic. · Magic powers and manifestations. · Manifestations of magic power. · Temporary magic characteristics. · Magic forgetfulness. · view the constellation · filed as D2003

Filed across the traditions
  • Icelandic *Boberg
  • Korean Zong in-Sob 25
  • general *Type 313C, 425
  • general Tegethoff 50ff.
  • general *BP I 442, II 56, 527, III 338, 406, 443 (Gr. Nos. 56, 67, 113, 186, 193, 198)
  • general Cox Cinderella 511
  • general *Fb "brud" IV 65a
  • general Jiriczek Der Vergessenheitstrank in der Niebelungensage (Zs. f. vgl. Littgsch. N. F. VII 49): Köhler-Bolte I 169. – English: Child I 461 and note
  • general American Indian (European borrowings): Thompson CColl II 343, 367–371 (Micmac, New Mexican Spanish, Thompson River, Chilcotin), (cf. Seneca): Curtin-Hewitt RBAE XXXII 91 No. 5.
Within the index

Filed under Magic forgetfulness.

1 finer motif beneath it
Husband magically forgets wife
Filed beside it
Means of bringing about magic forgetfulness Magic reawakening of memory. (Cf. D1360, D1910.) Years thought days. (Cf. F379.5.) Years spent in the other world or asleep seem as days because of magic forgetfulness Moments thought years. In a moment a person seems to experience events of many years
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Tabu: kissing. Usually causes disenchantment or magic forgetfulness. (Cf. D735, D2003.) Forgotten fiancée sends lover false diamond inscribed with Christ's last words: "Oh Lord why hast Thou forsaken me?" Lover returns. (Cf. D2003.)
Carried in tale types

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