μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

King demands subject's wife for himself.

Society. · Royalty and nobility. · Kings. · view the constellation · filed as P15.2

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Filed across the traditions
  • India Thompson-Balys
  • Chinese Graham.
Within the index

Filed under Adventures of kings.

1 finer motif beneath it
King carries off subject's wife and makes her his own
Filed beside it
Disguised king punished by peasant. Beaten because he does not get up early enough. (King Alfred and the cakes.) King loses his kingdom to impostor. (Cf. K1934.1.) King is cursed by disguised dwarf-smiths whose work he criticised King frees man sent by rival king to kill him. He sees bravery in the would-be assassin King descends to bottom of sea in glass barrel to study ways of fishes King himself works at brick building so that subjects cannot complain of enforced labor Subjects drive their ruler away after he has made them do forced labor

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