Chaste woman promises herself to her lover when the rocks leave the coast. (They are moved by magic.) — Mythoi

Motif

Chaste woman promises herself to her lover when the rocks leave the coast. (They are moved by magic.)

Ordaining the future. · Bargains and promises. · Other promises. · view the constellation · filed as M261

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth Cross
general Robinson Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (Cambridge, Mass., 1933) 826 (Franklin's Tale)
general **Dempster and Tatlock in Bryan and Dempster Sources and Analogues of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales 333–56
general cf. Type 976.

Within the index

Filed under Other promises.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Chaste woman promises herself to her lover when he can make a garden bloom in winter. (Cf. H352.) Princess promises to embrace her teacher on her wedding day. Teacher has only been testing her promise

Filed beside it

Person promises to have but one consort if he is cured Retreat in return for cessation of attack. Host agrees to march back a day's journey if warrior will cease his feats of arms upon them until a certain battle in the future Man promises to build church if he is saved at sea Promise to give another one's wife for a day Marriage promised to save life Sons agree to meet at father's grave after they have been out in world for one year to learn trade Supernatural woman promises to return if she gives birth to a boy

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