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Motif

Arrogant mistress repaid in kind by her lover.

Reversal of fortune. · Pride brought low. · Arrogance repaid. · view the constellation · filed as L431

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“They brought him a large tub full of hot water. Then the chief took the young man, put him into this tub, and, as soon as he was in the tub,?s? the water began to boil and the water boiled over the tub, boiling of its own accord. When the dross was all off, the chief took the bare bones of the young man, put them on a wide board, joining them together, and after he had done so, he called to his young daughter, who leaped over the bones.”

Tales of the North American Indians, Tale 68 · served from our shelf  receiptuncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

Attested across traditions
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.

  • IcelandicBoberg
  • West IndiesFlowers 560.
  • general *Type 900
  • general *BP I 443ff.
  • general **Philippson König Drosselbart FFC L
  • general Krappe Études ital. II 141ff.
  • general *Gigas "Et eventyrs vandring" Litteratur og Historie (København, 1902)
  • general *Fb "bejler" IV 31b
Within the index

Filed under Arrogance repaid.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Haughty mistress makes extravagant demands of lover: repaid. (Glove and the Lion.)Scorned lover poses as rich man and cheats his scornful mistressSneering princess is impregnated by magic
Filed beside it
Impoverished husband begs from wife's new husband. He has formerly refused this man charityArrogant farmer allows none to ride his precious horse without permission. He kills the man who does it, but is in revenge deprived of most of his goodsSelf-righteousness punished
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Magic dishMagic beautificationBeautification by death and resuscitationResuscitation by jumping (stepping) overResuscitation by boiling
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