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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

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Scholars’ trail — 7references

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.
  • 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.

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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 ropeTunnel entrance to guarded maiden's chamberHero 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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