Melons ripe and overripe analogous to girls ready for marriage — Mythoi

Motif

Melons ripe and overripe analogous to girls ready for marriage.

Tests. · Tests of cleverness. · Riddles. · Symbolic interpretations. · view the constellation · filed as H611.1

Cited in the index

general Iraq: Ethel Stevens Folk Tales of Iraq (London, 1931) 60.

Within the index

Filed under Youth asks for branch of tree; promised root. (Branch = youngest daughter; root = eldest.)

Filed beside it

Sign message sent by girl to enamored prince; interpreted by prince's friend Chief asks another for cutting of yams to complete his yam patch (daughter in marriage). Reply that seed yams for the year are shrivelled and old and it is too early for seedlings (his daughters are too young or too old)

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