100 brothers seek 100 sisters as wives. (Seven – seven, fifty – fifty, etc.) — Mythoi

Motif

100 brothers seek 100 sisters as wives. (Seven – seven, fifty – fifty, etc.)

Sex. · Love. · Wooing. · view the constellation · filed as T69.1

Filed across the traditions

Rumanian Schullerus FFC LXXVIII No. 303*
Greek Aeschylus Prometheus Bound 853.
general Type 303*

Within the index

Filed under Wooing – miscellaneous motifs.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Three brothers married to three sisters Seven princesses sought by seven princes

Filed beside it

Parents affiance children without their knowledge Man gives daughter in return for his release. (Cf. S222.) Bashful suitor directs his wooing to an oak Father punishes daughter by giving her to poor man in marriage

Carried in tale types

Brothers Seek Sisters as Wives (previously Six Brothers Seek Seven Sisters as Wives) · ATU 303A 2 recorded variants

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