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Motif

Hero flies to maiden's room. Enters her tower by means of artificial wings (or on flying horse).

Deceptions. · Seduction or deceptive marriage. · Entrance into girl's (man's) room (bed) by trick. · view the constellation · filed as K1346

Filed across the traditions
  • India *Thompson-Balys.
  • general *Type 575
  • general BP II 134 n. 1
  • general *Krappe Balor 11 n. 40
Within the index

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

1 finer motif beneath it
Hero flies on magic carpet to maiden's room
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 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 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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