μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
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.

  • Icelandic*Boberg.
Within the index

Filed under Betrothal ceremony.

1 finer motif beneath it
Dying lover sends his sweetheart his ring. (Cf. T81.)
Filed beside it
Liquor brewed for betrothalAt betrothal ceremony both parties drink out of the loving-cupEngagement ritual: intermediary sprinkles girl with flourToken of betrothal sent to parents of a proposed bridegroom; acceptance means agreement to proposed match

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