Leak in roof over woman's bed: in rain must go to bed with trickster

Motif

Leak in roof over woman's bed: in rain must go to bed with trickster.

Deceptions. · Seduction or deceptive marriage. · Girl tricked into man's room (or power). · view the constellation · filed as K1339.8

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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.

N. Am. Indian*Thompson Tales 305 n. 109s
general S. Am. Indian (Tenibé): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 140.

Within the index

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

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