μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

  • general *Types 1475–1499
  • general Hdwb. d. Abergl. I 334 s. v. "Alte Jungfer".
Within the index
6 finer motifs beneath it
X751.Marriage forbidden outside the parish. An order is read in church forbidding the young people to marry girls from other parishesThe old maid in bed. On one side is a bundle of straw (her husband) and on the other a dog (her child). She gives the straw bundle a push and thereupon falls on the floor herselfA youth promises to marry an old maid if she will sit all night on the roof. She falls downThe meal of beans. One of the old maid's three teeth breaks offThe wolf steals the old maid. She keeps him for a husbandThe mother trains the old maid to speak properly. Absurd results

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