"No!" The princess must answer all questions by "No". By clever framing of his question the hero wins her to his desires

Motif

"No!" The princess must answer all questions by "No". By clever framing of his question the hero wins her to his desires.

Deceptions. · Seduction or deceptive marriage. · Girl tricked into man's room (or power). · view the constellation · filed as K1331

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Scholars’ trail — 5references

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.

general *Types 851, 853
general BP I 192
general **Kristoffer Nyrop Nej: et motivs historie (København, 1891)
general Dania V 1ff., 164ff., 166
general *Toldo Zs. f. Vksk. XV 69 n. 2.

Within the index

Filed under Girl tricked into man's room (or power).

Filed beside it

Seduction by taking aboard ship to inspect wares Seduction by having maiden placed in floating chest Seduction (or wooing) on an aerial journey Seduction (or wooing) by stealing clothes of bathing girl (swan maiden)Magic helper brings girl to hero's bed Girl tricked into man's room (power) – miscellaneous

Carried in tale types

The Hero Catches the Princess with her Own Words · ATU 8531 recorded variant
'No · ATU 853A1 recorded variant

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