μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Bride-stealing.

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

Filed across the traditions
  • Icelandic *Boberg
  • Missouri French Carrière
  • Jewish *Neuman
  • India *Thompson-Balys.
  • general *Hdwb. d. Märchens I 549a nn. 175–204
Within the index

Filed under Woman persuaded (or wooed) by trick.

6 finer motifs beneath it
Lover steals bride from wedding with unwelcome suitor 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
Filed beside it
The weeping bitch. A procuress throws pepper into the eyes of a bitch so that she weeps. She pretends to the virtuous woman that the bitch is a woman transformed because of failure to respond to her lover. The woman is persuaded Death feigned to woo maiden. She shows remorse when she hears of lover's death Woman deceived into sacrificing honor. Ruler promises to release her brother (husband) but afterward refuses to do so Seduction by bearing false order from husband or father Altered letter of execution gives princess to hero. On his way robbers steal the letter and change it so that instead of being killed he is married to the princess Lover's gift regained. The husband appears before payment can be made to wife Girl shows herself naked in return for youth's dancing hogs Beggar buys right to sleep before the girl's door, at foot of bed, in the bed. Usually with jewel Innocent girl sells her "love" and later receives it back. When she tells her mother what has happened, she is beaten. Thinking to right matters, she demands that the knight return what he has taken. (Sequel: K1275.) Seduction of person ignorant of sexual intercourse Woman abducted by giving her medicine which appears to have killed her Second daughter won by representing first as dead Monk persuades a father to set daughter afloat in box: monk seduces her Seduction by making woman jealous of co-wife Woman engaged to marry by trick. (Cf. K1371.2, K1377, K1771.9.) Seduction by alleged vision promising woman to man
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Wife stealing punished with death. (Cf. K1371.) Trickster breaks up Jewish marriage ceremony and seduces the bride. (Cf. K1371.)

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