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Motif

Entrance into woman's (man's) room by hiding in chest.

Deceptions. · Seduction or deceptive marriage. · Entrance into girl's (man's) room (bed) by trick. · view the constellation · filed as K1342

Filed across the traditions
  • Italian Novella *Rotunda
  • India Thompson-Balys. Cf. Shakespeare's Cymbeline.
  • general *Type 882
  • general Köhler-Bolte I 211f.
  • general Fb "kiste" II 134
  • general Boccaccio Decameron II No. 9 (Lee 57)
Within the index

Filed under Entrance into girl's (man's) room (bed) by trick.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Man carried into woman's room hidden in basket. (Cf. K1343.1.) Entrance into woman's room in lamp stand Heroine in hiding-box which is bought by prince
Filed beside it
Entrance to woman's room in hollow artificial animal Man drawn up into female apartments on rope Tunnel entrance to guarded maiden's chamber Tale of the cradle. Two youths pass the night with a family where all sleep in a common room, with a cradle at the foot of one of the beds. The moving of the cradle in the night confuses those walking about so that the strangers sleep with the wife and the daughter Hero flies to maiden's room. Enters her tower by means of artificial wings (or on flying horse) Man is ushered into maiden's room by maidservant. He then takes the latter's place in the mistress's bed Lover gets into maiden's room by means of a ladder Other means of entering into girl's (man's) room (bed)
Carried in tale types

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