μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Pif Paf Poltrie. The suitor sent from one relation to the other for consent to the wedding.

Miscellaneous groups of motifs. · Formulas. · Cumulative tales. · Chains involving a single scene or event without interdependence among the individual actors. · view the constellation · filed as Z31.1

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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.

  • IndiaThompson-Balys.
  • general *Type 2019
  • general *BP III 71
  • general *Taylor JAFL XLVI 81 No. 2019
Within the index

Filed under Chains involving a wedding.

Filed beside it
Louse and flea wish to marry. Mosquito, toad, ant, etc. volunteer to supply the wedding feast
Carried in tale types

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