Louse and flea wish to marry. Mosquito, toad, ant, etc. volunteer to supply the wedding feast

Motif

Louse and flea wish to marry. Mosquito, toad, ant, etc. volunteer to supply the wedding feast.

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 Z31.2

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

SpanishBoggs FFC XC 154 No. 2020*.

Within the index

Filed under Chains involving a wedding.

Filed beside it

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

Carried in tale types

Louse and Flea Wish to Marry · ATU 2019*1 recorded variant

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