μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Love through dream. Falling in love with a person seen in a dream.

Sex. · Love. · Falling in love. · view the constellation · filed as T11.3

Filed across the traditions
  • Icelandic M. Moe in Edda 1914 p. 245, *Boberg
  • Arabian Basset 1001 Contes I 136, II 68
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Korean Zong in-Sob 73 No. 40, 136 No. 63
  • Indonesia J. Brandes Tijdschrift voor Indische Taal-, Land-, en Volkenkunde XLI 295f., 469, Jeynboll Supplement Catalogus Jav. – Madoereesche Handschriften I 53ff.
  • Hawaii Beckwith Myth 231
  • Africa Frobenius Atlantis III 247
  • Cape Verde Islands Parsons MAFLS XV (1) 211f. No. 73, 220 No. 74.
  • general *Type 516
  • general *BP I 45
  • general *Rösch FFC LXXVII 100
  • general *Chauvin V 132 No. 112
  • general *Penzer III 82 n. 2, IX 36 n. 1
  • general *Moore PMLA XXIX 527f.
  • general Rohde Griechische Roman 45ff.
  • general Dunlop-Wilson II 258
  • general Bédier Fabliaux (1895) 113ff.
  • general *Krappe Revue Hispanique LXXXI 5ff. Irish: MacCulloch Celtic 78, *Cross
  • general N. Am. Indian (Yana): Curtin Creation Myths 425ff.
Within the index

Filed under Falling in love with person never seen.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Lovers meet in their dreams Dream about a marriage with another's wife
Filed beside it
Love from mere mention or description Love through sight of picture 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
Carried in tale types

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