Girl carefully guarded from suitors

Motif

Girl carefully guarded from suitors.

Sex. · Love. · Wooing. · view the constellation · filed as T50.1

Scholars’ trail — 6references

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
JewishNeuman
India*Thompson-Balys
West IndiesFlowers 577.
general Hdwb. d. Märchens I 551a nn. 228–36

Within the index

Filed under Wooing.

4 finer motifs beneath it

Girl carefully guarded by mother. (Cf. K1349.4.)Girl carefully guarded by father Girl carefully guarded from suitors by hag Cat and dog as guards of imprisoned beauty. (Cf. B576.1.)

Filed beside it

King likes his daughter so much that he does not wish to marry her to anyone Mythical being asks for girl in marriage. (Cf. T111.)Wooing by emissary Bride purchased Matchmakers Choosing bride by horoscope. (Cf. B152.2, M302.4, T22.)Girl as wooer. Forthputting woman Means of attracting sweetheart Declaration of love Wooing the strong and beautiful bride Betrothal Princess to marry first man who asks for her Princess's husband selected by elephant bowing to him. (Cf. H171.1.)King seeks bride only because counsellors insist Betrothal restrictions Help in wooing. (Cf. B582.)

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