Marriage of poor boy and rich girl

Motif

Marriage of poor boy and rich girl.

Reversal of fortune. · Unpromising hero (heroine). · Success of the unpromising hero (heroine). · view the constellation · filed as L161.1

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Scholars’ trail — 4references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

IndiaThompson-Balys
ChineseGraham
KoreanZong in-Sob 81 No. 44
N. Am. Indian (Zuñi)*Benedict II 336.

Within the index

Filed under Lowly hero marries princess.

Filed beside it

Fool wins beautiful woman as wife Mercenary soldier (exile) accepted lover of princess

Travels with

Princess marries lowly man. (Cf. L161.1.)

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