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"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

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Scholars’ trail — 6references

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.

  • N. Am. IndianThompson CColl II 420ff.
  • Cape Verde IslandsParsons 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 husbandSeduction by bearing false order from motherSeduction by bearing false order from lover
Travels with
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."
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