Bride purchased for her weight in gold

Motif

Bride purchased for her weight in gold.

Sex. · Love. · Wooing. · view the constellation · filed as T52.3

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

East AfricaRochemonteix Quelques Contes Nubiens (Cairo, 1888) 48ff. No. 4.

Within the index

Filed under Bride purchased.

Filed beside it

Prince buys twig (flower) (enchanted girl) from her mother. (Cf. D212, D215.)Purchase money instead of bride given to suitor to settle dispute Dowry given at marriage of daughter Attempt to purchase wife Rich girl gives poor suitor necklace with which to pay her bride-price Princess asked for in return for sparing palace. (Cf. S222.)Absent man's wife demanded in law court in payment of debt by creditor Village given to bride-to-be as part of her dowry

Carried in tale types

A Pound of Flesh · ATU 8901 recorded variant

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