Loser in bride-race must die — Mythoi

Motif

Loser in bride-race must die.

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

Filed across the traditions

Italian Novella Rotunda
Greek Frazer 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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