Suitors put off till web is woven. Unwoven each night. (Penelope.) — Mythoi

Motif

Suitors put off till web is woven. Unwoven each night. (Penelope.)

Deceptions. · Deception into humiliating position. · Humiliated or baffled lovers. · view the constellation · filed as K1227.2

Filed across the traditions

Greek *Frazer Apollodorus II 299 n. 2. → on our shelf: The Library (Bibliotheca), APOLLODORI BIBLIOTHECA, ch. 33
general *W. Crooke FL IX 97

Within the index

Filed under Lover put off by deceptive respite.

Filed beside it

Lover put off till girl bathes and dresses. She escapes Respite from wooer while he brings clothes all night. The girl wastes time trying them on Girl asks undesired lover to take off his boots. She pulls off one partway and escapes Woman leaves importunate lover waiting in her room. Feigns illness and then escapes Girl asks undesired lover to follow her but not to step on her shadow Girl says she has made vow not to marry until pilgrimage is made Girl as umpire in suitor test (shooting arrows) escapes Importunate lover kept overlong at supper: must leave Escape from undesired lover by alleging menstrual period

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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