μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 4references

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.

  • Jewish*Neuman
  • IndiaThompson-Balys.
  • general Type 516
  • general Rösch FFC LXXVII 101
Within the index

Filed under Wooing – miscellaneous motifs.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Parents wooing one of seven daughters for their sonParents decide princess can marry no one who weighs more than she
Filed beside it
100 brothers seek 100 sisters as wives. (Seven – seven, fifty – fifty, etc.)Man gives daughter in return for his release. (Cf. S222.)Bashful suitor directs his wooing to an oakFather punishes daughter by giving her to poor man in marriage

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