μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Woman enticed to upper world on a stretching tree.

Deceptions. · Seduction or deceptive marriage. · Girl tricked into man's room (or power). · view the constellation · filed as K1339.2

Filed across the traditions
  • N. Am. Indian *Thompson Tales 332 n. 200.
Within the index

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

1 finer motif beneath it
Seduction by luring woman to platform to look for distant ship
Filed beside it
Fresh hides spread on grass; girl slips up and is deflowered Woman enticed into man's room by feigned illness Seduction by sham beauty test. Trickster dupes two girls into submitting to test. Both seduced Girl tricked by use of drugs. Subsequent pregnancy used to force her into marrying seducer Seduction by priest who insists on woman having confession in his own house Trickster agrees to carry old woman and girl across stream: carries girl across and rides off with her leaving old woman on other side Leak in roof over woman's bed: in rain must go to bed with trickster

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