Love from mere mention or description — Mythoi

Motif

Love from mere mention or description.

Sex. · Love. · Falling in love. · view the constellation · filed as T11.1

Filed across the traditions

Icelandic *Boberg
Italian Basile Pentamerone IV No. 7, *Rotunda
India *Thompson-Balys.
general *Type 516
general *Rösch FFC LXXVII 100
general *Chauvin V 132 No. 112
general *Penzer X 214 s. v. "Love by mere mention"
general Malone PMLA XLIII 399
general *Dickson 188 n. 63
general Hibbard 208 n. 18, 226 n. 1
general *Cross MPh XII 612 n. 3
general Moore PMLA XXIX (1914) 527f.
general Fb "hår" IV 241b. Irish myth: *Cross

Within the index

Filed under Falling in love with person never seen.

1 finer motif beneath it

Beauty of woman reported to king causes quest for her as his bride

Filed beside it

Love through sight of picture Love through dream. Falling in love with a person seen in a dream Love through sight of something belonging to unknown princess Falling in love with reflection in water. Princess thus first sees prince Wish for wife red as blood, white as snow, black as raven Love through sight in magic mirror. (Cf. D1163.) Falling in love with beautiful voice

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