Finger-drying contest won by deception. Three daughters are to wet hands; the first to have hands dry is to be the first to marry. The youngest waves her hands, exclaiming, "I don't want a man!" She wins

Motif

Finger-drying contest won by deception. Three daughters are to wet hands; the first to have hands dry is to be the first to marry. The youngest waves her hands, exclaiming, "I don't want a man!" She wins.

Deceptions. · Contests won by deception. · Other contests won by deception. · view the constellation · filed as K95

Scholars’ trail — 4references

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U.S.Baughman
North CarolinaBrown Collection I 701
Italian NovellaRotunda.
general *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 14

Within the index

Filed under Other contests won by deception.

Filed beside it

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Carried in tale types

Finger-drying Contest Won by Deception · ATU 14631 recorded variant

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