Rat changes name and wins wife intended for leopard — Mythoi

Motif

Rat changes name and wins wife intended for leopard.

Deceptions. · Seduction or deceptive marriage. · Woman persuaded (or wooed) by trick. · view the constellation · filed as K1371.3

Filed across the traditions

Africa (Mpongwe) Nassau 41ff. N. 6.

Within the index

Filed under Bride-stealing.

Filed beside it

Lover steals bride from wedding with unwelcome suitor Father tricked into giving away disguised daughter in marriage Lover in disguise abducts beloved Man gets bridegroom drunk and enjoys the bride While chief is performing suitor task, rival steals the bride

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