Trickster agrees to carry old woman and girl across stream: carries girl across and rides off with her leaving old woman on other side

Motif

Trickster agrees to carry old woman and girl across stream: carries girl across and rides off with her leaving old woman on other side.

Deceptions. · Seduction or deceptive marriage. · Girl tricked into man's room (or power). · view the constellation · filed as K1339.7

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

India*Thompson-Balys.

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

Filed beside it

Fresh hides spread on grass; girl slips up and is deflowered Woman enticed to upper world on a stretching tree 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 Leak in roof over woman's bed: in rain must go to bed with trickster

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