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

Motif

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

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

Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

RumanianSchullerus FFC LXXVIII No. 303*
GreekAeschylus 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 303A2 recorded variants

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