μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 6references

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.

  • Italian Novella*Rotunda
  • IndiaThompson-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 standHeroine in hiding-box which is bought by prince
Filed beside it
Entrance to woman's room in hollow artificial animalMan drawn up into female apartments on ropeTunnel entrance to guarded maiden's chamberTale 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 daughterHero 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 bedLover gets into maiden's room by means of a ladderOther means of entering into girl's (man's) room (bed)
Carried in tale types

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