μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 7references

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
  • JewishNeuman
  • IndiaThompson-Balys.
  • general *Cross MPh XII 612 n. 3
  • general Hibbard 208 n. 18
Within the index

Filed under Wooing.

11 finer motifs beneath it
Princess declares her love for lowly heroServant-girl helps prince if he will make her chief wifeLady in love with ruler enlists friend's aid. Rendezvous arrangedLittle girl will give prince marvelous objects if he promises to marry her laterPrincess feigns sickness to woo hero. Only marriage to him will cure herPerson (man, woman) exhibits figurePrincess elects herself husband from the young men present. (Cf. H311, H362, T131.0.1.)Princess declares love by presenting cup of drink at feastHarper as love messenger sent by girlPrincess offers reward for securing prince as husband for herPrincess transforms self to woo. (Cf. D658.)
Filed beside it
Girl carefully guarded from suitorsKing likes his daughter so much that he does not wish to marry her to anyoneMythical being asks for girl in marriage. (Cf. T111.)Wooing by emissaryBride purchasedMatchmakersChoosing bride by horoscope. (Cf. B152.2, M302.4, T22.)Means of attracting sweetheartDeclaration of loveWooing the strong and beautiful brideBetrothalPrincess to marry first man who asks for herPrincess's husband selected by elephant bowing to him. (Cf. H171.1.)King seeks bride only because counsellors insistBetrothal restrictionsHelp in wooing. (Cf. B582.)
Carried in tale types

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