μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Penniless wooer: helpful animal reports master wealthy and thus wins girl for him.

Deceptions. · Deception through shams. · Impostures. · Marital impostors. · view the constellation · filed as K1917.3

Filed across the traditions
  • India *Thompson-Balys.
  • general *Type 545B
  • general BP I 325, III 487
Within the index

Filed under Penniless bridegroom pretends to wealth.

Filed beside it
Penniless wooer: patch of land. After marriage he takes the bride to look at his land. He puts on soiled clothes. She looks at the land; he points to the patch on his clothes. "That patch is mine." Penniless wooer: money in hand. An uncle gives the boy a coin and food to hold while he woos for him. He tells the girl's father that the boy has a piece of money in hand and plenty to eat. Wins the girl Penniless wooer. "House of my father with one hundred fifty lights and goat pen." When the servant in bed so remarks the master marries his daughter to him. Arrived at the hut, he explains that the lights are the stars whose beams enter through the cracks in the roof. One goat is tied to the tree Man wins girl's love by pretending to wealth and nobility. Deception is discovered and impostor is banished Forged credentials used to win girl. Theft of gems "All of these are mine," says wooer as he strokes his whiskers. The girl thinks he is indicating the fields and live stock past which they are riding Slave poses as treasurer's son and carries letter purporting to ask for hand of merchant's daughter in marriage
Carried in tale types

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