μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 5references

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.

  • IcelandicBoberg
  • ItalianBasile Pentamerone II No. 2
  • Italian NovellaRotunda
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • S. Am. Indian (Chiriguano)Métraux RMLP XXXIII 142, MAFLS XL 159.
Within the index

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

1 finer motif beneath it
Girl seduced from beneath ground
Filed beside it
Entrance to woman's room in hollow artificial animalEntrance into woman's (man's) room by hiding in chestMan drawn up into female apartments on ropeTale 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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