μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 4references

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.

  • EstonianAarne FFC XXV 120 No. 31
  • LithuanianBalys Legends Nos. 345f., 363, 398.
  • general BP I 221
  • general *Roberts 175
Within the index

Filed under Lover put off by deceptive respite.

1 finer motif beneath it
Girl refuses to dance with a devil until she is well dressed. The devil brings things till the cock crows. Another girl asks for all the things at once and must dance until she dies
Filed beside it
Lover put off till girl bathes and dresses. She escapesSuitors put off till web is woven. Unwoven each night. (Penelope.)Girl asks undesired lover to take off his boots. She pulls off one partway and escapesWoman leaves importunate lover waiting in her room. Feigns illness and then escapesGirl asks undesired lover to follow her but not to step on her shadowGirl says she has made vow not to marry until pilgrimage is madeGirl as umpire in suitor test (shooting arrows) escapesImportunate lover kept overlong at supper: must leaveEscape from undesired lover by alleging menstrual period

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