Flight of maiden (bridegroom) to escape marriage — Mythoi

Motif

Flight of maiden (bridegroom) to escape marriage.

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

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth *Cross
Icelandic *Boberg
Italian Novella Rotunda
Greek Aeschylus Suppliants line 5
India Thompson-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 510B 6 recorded variants

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