Modest request: present from the journey. Asked what her father shall bring her as a present, the heroine chooses a modest gift. It is usually a flower but sometimes does not turn out to be such a simple gift after all (golden cloak, golden apple)

Motif

Modest request: present from the journey. Asked what her father shall bring her as a present, the heroine chooses a modest gift. It is usually a flower but sometimes does not turn out to be such a simple gift after all (golden cloak, golden apple).

Reversal of fortune. · Modesty brings reward. · Modest request best. · view the constellation · filed as L221

Scholars’ trail — 6references

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.
general *Type 425
general *Fb "rose" III 80a, "guldæble" I 515b, "guldrok" I 514b
general *Hdwb. d. Märchens I 206b
general Tegethoff 11
general Italian Basile Pentamerone II No. 8

Within the index

Filed under Modest request best.

1 finer motif beneath it

Present from the journey: what you first see

Filed beside it

Modest choice: parting gift. Small gift with blessing preferred to large gift with parent's curse Hero refuses reward. Rides away without it

Carried in tale types

The Animal as Bridegroom · ATU 425A16 recorded variants
The Prince as Bird · ATU 4322 recorded variants
Beauty and the Beast · ATU 425C1 recorded variant

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