Loser in bride-race must die

Motif

Loser in bride-race must die.

Tests. · Marriage tests. · Suitor tests. · Suitor tests. · view the constellation · filed as H331.5.0.1

“Aeneas, son of Anchises, and with him Archelochus and Acamas, sons of Antenor, and Theanus, leaders of ‘the Dardanians; of the Thracians, Acamas, son of Eusorus ; of the Cicones, Euphemus, son of Troezenus ; of the Paeonians, Pyraechmes; of the Paphlagonians, Pylaemenes, son of Bilsates; from Zelia, Pandarus, son of Lycaon ; from Adrastia, Adrastus and Amphius, sons of Merops; from Arisbe, Asius, son of Hyrtacus ; from Larissa,…”

— The Library (Bibliotheca), APOLLODORI BIBLIOTHECA, ch. 33 · served from our shelf uncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

On our shelf — the index’s citations, resolved to served chapters

GreekThe Library (Bibliotheca), APOLLODORI BIBLIOTHECA, ch. 33Thompson cites: Frazer Apollodorus II 160 n. 2.

Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

Italian NovellaRotunda
GreekFrazer Apollodorus II 160 n. 2. → on our shelf: The Library (Bibliotheca), APOLLODORI BIBLIOTHECA, ch. 33

Within the index

Filed under Suitor contest: race.

Filed beside it

Race with princess for her hand Suitor contest: race with bride's father Suitor test: winning horse-race three times Suitor test: boat race

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

Bag of winds. Wind is confined in a bag. Man breaks prohibition against looking into bag and releases winds Transformation: man to swine Transformation: woman to bitch Transformation: man to dove Transformation: man (woman) to almond tree Transformation by drinking Disenchantment from tree form by embrace of lover Moly: magic plant Magic lotus plant. (Cf. D975.1.)Magic drink Magic chair Lotus causes forgetfulness. (Cf. D965.6, D2004.3.)

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