Prince sees maiden at church and is enamored

Motif

Prince sees maiden at church and is enamored.

Chance and fate. · Accidental encounters. · Accidental meeting of hero and heroine. · view the constellation · filed as N711.4

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Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

Missouri FrenchCarrière
SpanishEspinosa III Nos. 111f., Espinosa Jr. No. 119.
general *Types 510AB

Within the index

Filed under King (prince) accidentally finds maiden and marries her.

1 finer motif beneath it

Lovers meet at temple

Filed beside it

King (prince) finds maiden in woods (tree) and marries her Hero finds maiden in (magic) castle Hero finds maiden in (magic) garden Prince (king) finds girl floating on water in basket: marries her Prince sees heroine at ball and is enamored

Carried in tale types

Cinderella · ATU 510A24 recorded variants

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