Parents affiance children without their knowledge — Mythoi

Motif

Parents affiance children without their knowledge.

Sex. · Love. · Wooing. · view the constellation · filed as T69.2

Filed across the traditions

Jewish *Neuman
India Thompson-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 son Parents 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 oak Father punishes daughter by giving her to poor man in marriage

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