μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

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.

Deceptions. · Seduction or deceptive marriage. · Entrance into girl's (man's) room (bed) by trick. · view the constellation · filed as K1345

Filed across the traditions
  • Italian Novella *Rotunda.
  • general Type 1363
  • general *Robinson Complete Works of Chaucer 790a (Reeves Tale)
  • general *Varnhagen "Die Erzählung von der Wiege" Englische Studien IX 240
  • general Bédier Fabliaux 463
  • general von der Hagen III *xix, 37ff.
  • general Boccaccio Decameron IX No. 6 (Lee 281)
Within the index

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

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 Tunnel entrance to guarded maiden's chamber 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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