Tunnel entrance to guarded maiden's chamber — Mythoi

Motif

Tunnel entrance to guarded maiden's chamber.

Deceptions. · Seduction or deceptive marriage. · Entrance into girl's (man's) room (bed) by trick. · view the constellation · filed as K1344

Filed across the traditions

Icelandic Boberg
Italian Basile Pentamerone II No. 2
Italian Novella Rotunda
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 animal Entrance into woman's (man's) room by hiding in chest Man drawn up into female apartments on rope 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

Underground Passage to Lover's House · ATU 1419E 1 recorded variant

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