μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 18references

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.

  • Icelandic*Boberg
  • BretonSébillot Incidents s. v. "portrait"
  • Missouri FrenchCarrière
  • ArabianBurton Nights S II 194ff.
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • ChineseGraham, Eberhard FFC CXX 61f., 252
  • JapaneseIkeda
  • IndonesiaDeVries's list No. 218.
  • general *Types 403, 516, 900
  • general *BP I 45ff., 443ff.
  • general *Rösch FFC LXXVII 98
  • general Philippson FFC L 11f.
  • general *Penzer X 214 s. v. "love with a painting", 263 s. v. "picture, falling in love"
  • general Fb "portræt" II 863
  • general *Köhler-Bolte I 127, 520ff., 527
  • general Wesselski Archiv Orientální II 430
  • general Herbert III 204
  • general Oesterley No. 62. English: Wells 81 (Sir Tristrem)
Within the index

Filed under Falling in love with person never seen.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Ugly picture of suitor makes girl refuse himLove through sight of statue
Filed beside it
Love from mere mention or descriptionLove through dream. Falling in love with a person seen in a dreamLove through sight of something belonging to unknown princessFalling in love with reflection in water. Princess thus first sees princeWish for wife red as blood, white as snow, black as ravenLove through sight in magic mirror. (Cf. D1163.)Falling in love with beautiful voice
Carried in tale types

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