Lover steals bride from wedding with unwelcome suitor — Mythoi

Motif

Lover steals bride from wedding with unwelcome suitor.

Deceptions. · Seduction or deceptive marriage. · Woman persuaded (or wooed) by trick. · view the constellation · filed as K1371.1

Filed across the traditions

Icelandic *Boberg
India Thompson-Balys.
general *Type 885
general Child IV 218, 230, V 260f.
general Hdwb. d. Märchens I 549b nn. 205–215
general *Boje 110ff.
general literary treatment: Scott "Lochinvar", Ibsen "Peer Gynt"

Within the index

Filed under Bride-stealing.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Parson deceived into marrying his intended bride to her real lover. The parson thinks it is a mock-wedding, but it turns out to be real Lover's foster brother (friend) steals bride from wedding with unwelcome suitor

Filed beside it

Father tricked into giving away disguised daughter in marriage Rat changes name and wins wife intended for leopard Lover in disguise abducts beloved Man gets bridegroom drunk and enjoys the bride While chief is performing suitor task, rival steals the bride

Carried in tale types

The Man with Four Wives (previously The Girl Elopes With the Wrong Man) · ATU 856 2 recorded variants
The Facetious Wedding (previously The Poor Boy Betrothed to the Maiden) · ATU 885 1 recorded variant

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