Prince sees heroine at ball and is enamored

Motif

Prince sees heroine at ball and is enamored.

Chance and fate. · Accidental encounters. · Accidental meeting of hero and heroine. · view the constellation · filed as N711.6

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Scholars’ trail — 5references

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 II 107–112, 154
IndiaThompson-Balys.
general *Type 510AB
general Espinosa Jr. Nos. 123f.

Within the index

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

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 sees maiden at church and is enamored Prince (king) finds girl floating on water in basket: marries her

Carried in tale types

Cinderella · ATU 510A24 recorded variants
Peau d'asne (previously The Dress of Gold, of Silver, and of Stars [Cap o' Rushes]) · ATU 510B6 recorded variants

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