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Other means of entering into girl's (man's) room (bed).

Deceptions. · Seduction or deceptive marriage. · Entrance into girl's (man's) room (bed) by trick. · view the constellation · filed as K1349

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

10 finer motifs beneath it
Disguise to enter girl's (man's) room. (Cf. K1310–1329, passim.) Trickster gains access to woman's room by pretending he has news of her absent lover Access gained by the aid of rival's mule. Man tries in vain to learn the identity of his friend's mistress. Mounts his friend's mule, which takes him to the secret rendezvous Lover visits guarded maiden while harper puts mother to sleep Access for seduction gained by removing locks Lover gets self carried into beloved's house to wait for clean clothes after a purposeful fall in mud Man burns down own neighboring house to gain access to bedroom of beloved Entrance into woman's room through concealed door Trickster pretends to seek lost ball by woman's bed: seduces her Admission to woman's room by means of cap of invisibility
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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 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
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