Jus primae noctis. Overlord claims right of sleeping the first night with subject's wife

Motif

Jus primae noctis. Overlord claims right of sleeping the first night with subject's wife.

Sex. · Marriage. · Consummation of marriage. · view the constellation · filed as T161

Scholars’ trail — 9references

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.

SwissJegerlehner Oberwallis 319 No. 21
FrenchSébillot France IV 285
Jewish*bin Gorion Born Judas 2d ed. I 363, *Neuman
IndiaThompson-Balys.
general Liebrecht Orient und Occident II 541f., Liebrecht 94, 416
general Herrmann Saxo II 324
general *Hertz Abhandlungen 207ff.
general *Hdwb. d. Abergl. III 746
general *Wesselski Archiv Orientální I 82f. Irish: MacCulloch Celtic 140, *Cross

Within the index

Filed under Consummation of marriage.

2 finer motifs beneath it

King deflowers all twelve year old girls Lover allowed to sleep with woman first few nights after her marriage to another

Filed beside it

Feast of "bedding and handspreading" before consummation of marriage Girl may remain virgin for three days after marriage. (Cf. C117.)Bride afraid of intercourse refuses consummation until judge orders it in court Bridegroom driven from bridal chamber by magic. Usually by hornets or wasps Dangers to husband in bridal chamber Murderous bride Magic perils threaten bridal couple. The perils are various – magic horse, poison, enchanted clothes, etc Bridegroom magically impelled to leave his bride Dangerous husband. (Cf. T172.)Death from intercourse

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