μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
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.

  • general *Spargo Virgil the Necromancer 139, 369 n. 6
  • general Penzer V 24.
Within the index

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

2 finer motifs beneath it
Man drawn up into female apartments in basket. (Cf. K1342.0.1.)Man disguised as woman carried into princess's room: marries her. (Cf. K1321.1.)
Filed beside it
Entrance to woman's room in hollow artificial animalEntrance into woman's (man's) room by hiding in chestTunnel 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)

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