μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 7references

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.

  • Italian Novella*Rotunda
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • ChineseGraham
  • JapaneseIkeda
  • TahitiHenry Ancient Tahiti (Honolulu, 1928) 614.
  • general *Types 300, 301, 302, 303, 304, 306, 307, 308*, 314, 325, 329, 400, 434, 502, 506, 507, 508, 513, 514, 530, 545B, 552, 553, 559, 560, 561, 570, 571, 575, 577, 580, 590, 594*, 725, 853, 854, 930, 935
  • general Child V 488 s. v. "marriages". Missouri French: Carrière
Within the index

Filed under Success of the unpromising hero (heroine).

3 finer motifs beneath it
Marriage of poor boy and rich girlFool wins beautiful woman as wifeMercenary soldier (exile) accepted lover of princess
Filed beside it
Lowly heroine marries prince (king)Lowly boy becomes king. (Most references to L161 apply here)Lowly successful hero invites king and humbles himDespised boy wins raceDespised boy wins gambling game[First Edition: L190. Unpromising hero (heroine) – miscellaneous.]
Travels with
Princess falls in love with lowly boy. (Cf. L161.)
Carried in tale types

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