Princess serves as menial — Mythoi

Motif

Princess serves as menial.

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Humiliating punishments. · view the constellation · filed as Q482.1

Filed across the traditions

India Thompson-Balys.
general *Type 425

Within the index

Filed under Punishment: noble person must do menial service. (Cf. A181, H465.)

1 finer motif beneath it

Second wife (slave) must serve as menial

Filed beside it

Queen placed in kitchen and abused by butcher Nobleman after death must serve as menial Cast-forth wife must sit at horse-block of palace and tell story to each newcomer and offer to carry him inside Queen made to scare crows away in fields Punishment: man must do women's work

Carried in tale types

The Animal as Bridegroom · ATU 425A 48 recorded variants

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