"Both?" The youth is sent to the house to get two articles. He meets the two daughters and calls back to the master. "Both?" "Yes, I said both!" replies the master. The youth has his will of both daughters — Mythoi

Motif

"Both?" The youth is sent to the house to get two articles. He meets the two daughters and calls back to the master. "Both?" "Yes, I said both!" replies the master. The youth has his will of both daughters.

Deceptions. · Seduction or deceptive marriage. · Woman persuaded (or wooed) by trick. · view the constellation · filed as K1354.1

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Japanese / Shinto Kojiki: Records of Ancient Matters , Section 116

Filed across the traditions

N. Am. Indian Thompson CColl II 420ff.
Cape Verde Islands Parsons MAFLS XV (1) 115.
general *Type 1563
general Chauvin VI 180 No. 342
general Bolte Montanus Gartengesellschaft 611 No. 73
general Köhler-Bolte I 150, 291

Within the index

Filed under Seduction by bearing false order from husband or father.

1 finer motif beneath it

Trickster masking as girl's father advises intercourse with trickster. She obeys

Filed beside it

Seduction by bringing false order from husband Seduction by bearing false order from mother Seduction by bearing false order from lover

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Give him what he wants. (Cf. K437.5, K1354.1.) Thief sent to man's house for water, demands money. Man's wife refuses and thief shouts to the husband who replies, "Give him what he wants."

Carried in tale types

'Both' A farmhand (often an ill-treated one) is sent by the farmer into the house to get something · ATU 1563 1 recorded variant

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