Flight of maiden (bridegroom) to escape marriage

Motif

Flight of maiden (bridegroom) to escape marriage.

Sex. · Chastity and celibacy. · Celibacy and continence. · view the constellation · filed as T311.1

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.

Irish myth*Cross
Icelandic*Boberg
Italian NovellaRotunda
GreekAeschylus Suppliants line 5
IndiaThompson-Balys.
general Type 888*
general cf. Type 510B
general *Toldo II 306
general Alphabet No. 310

Within the index

Filed under Woman averse to marriage. (Cf. T321.1, T327.3.)

Filed beside it

Woman's aversion to marriage motivated through a dream Woman prefers to remain chaste rather than keep an impotent husband. (Cf. T271.1.)Girl remains a virgin after both her suitors are killed in battle Maiden queen prefers to fight instead of marrying, but is at last conquered and married

Carried in tale types

Peau d'asne (previously The Dress of Gold, of Silver, and of Stars [Cap o' Rushes]) · ATU 510B6 recorded variants

wander