Younger child may not marry before elder

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Younger child may not marry before elder.

Sex. · Marriage. · Marriage customs. · view the constellation · filed as T131.2

Scholars’ trail — 5references

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.

Irish myth*Cross
IcelandicRittershaus No. 2
IndonesiaPleyte Bataksche Vertellingen 184f., Wilken Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land-, en Volkenkunde van Nederlandsch-Indië I 142
Africa (Zulu)Callaway 323.
general Hdwb. d. Abergl. II 566

Within the index

Filed under Marriage restrictions.

Filed beside it

Princess has unrestricted choice of husband. (Cf. T55.7.)Relative's consent to marriage necessary Eldest daughter will marry man only if he will marry all her sisters too Widow may not remarry Exogamy. Marriage only outside the group Girl will marry on condition she is to be only wife King may not marry girl who has been wife of another Different religion as obstacle for marriage Brahmin may marry from all four castes

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