μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Man gives daughter in return for his release. (Cf. S222.)

Sex. · Love. · Wooing. · view the constellation · filed as T69.3

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Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth Cross.
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Filed under Wooing – miscellaneous motifs.

1 finer motif beneath it
Raja betroths his daughter to visitor's son as a compensation for murder
Filed beside it
100 brothers seek 100 sisters as wives. (Seven – seven, fifty – fifty, etc.) Parents affiance children without their knowledge Bashful suitor directs his wooing to an oak Father punishes daughter by giving her to poor man in marriage
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Prince plans to kill wicked father for cruelty

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