Penniless bridegroom pretends to wealth.
Deceptions. · Deception through shams. · Impostures. · Marital impostors. · view the constellation · filed as K1917
Motif
Filed across the traditions
- India Thompson-Balys.
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Filed under Marital impostors.
8 finer motifs beneath 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: helpful animal reports master wealthy and thus wins girl for him 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
Filed beside it
The false bride (substituted bride). An impostor takes the wife's place without the husband's knowledge and banishes (kills, transforms) the wife The false virgin. Various deceptions practiced to mask bride as virgin Abductor pretends to have been sent to fetch princess by lover The false bridegroom (substitute bridegroom). Takes the place of the true bridegroom Robber bridegroom. Robber marries girl under pretence of being a fine gentleman Monster disguises and wins girl. Borrows wedding garments one by one; later returns them one by one and reveals monster form Marital impostors – miscellaneous
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