Seduction by having maiden placed in floating chest

Motif

Seduction by having maiden placed in floating chest.

Deceptions. · Seduction or deceptive marriage. · Girl tricked into man's room (or power). · view the constellation · filed as K1333

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

IndiaThompson-Balys.
general *Hertel Zs. f. Vksk. XIX 83ff.

Within the index

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

Filed beside it

"No!" The princess must answer all questions by "No". By clever framing of his question the hero wins her to his desires Seduction by taking aboard ship to inspect wares 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

Travels with

Monkey instead of girl in floating basket: hermit made laughing-stock. He has persuaded girl's foolish father to place her in the basket. Prince takes girl and leaves monkey in her place. (Cf. K1333, K1674.)

Carried in tale types

The Lecherous Holy Man and the Maiden in a Box · ATU 8962 recorded variants

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