Modest choice: parting gift. Small gift with blessing preferred to large gift with parent's curse

Motif

Modest choice: parting gift. Small gift with blessing preferred to large gift with parent's curse.

Reversal of fortune. · Modesty brings reward. · Modest request best. · view the constellation · filed as L222

Scholars’ trail — 8references

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.

JewishNeuman
Cape Verde IslandsParsons MAFLS XV (1) 110, 122.
general *Köhler-Bolte I 188
general BP I 214 n. 1
general Gunkel Das Märchen im alten Testament (Tübingen, 1921) 100f.
general Campbell Tales I 220 No. 13
general Lang English Fairy Tales 136 No. 23
general Gipsy: Aichele Zigeunermärchen 289 No. 69

Within the index

Filed under Modest request best.

4 finer motifs beneath it

Modest choice for parting gift – money or counsels. Counsels chosen Modest parting gift best – meat or bones. Bones thrown to pursuing dogs delay them and allow escape; not so with meat Modest choice for parting gift: when offered money man takes magic stick Modest choice of parting gift: magic iron measure chosen

Filed beside it

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)Hero refuses reward. Rides away without it

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