The old and the new keys. Hero marries his first sweetheart according to the proverb that the old key is better than the new. (Cf. L214.) — Mythoi

Motif

The old and the new keys. Hero marries his first sweetheart according to the proverb that the old key is better than the new. (Cf. L214.)

Miscellaneous groups of motifs. · Formulas. · Other formulistic motifs. · view the constellation · filed as Z62.1

Filed across the traditions

Rumanian Schullerus FFC LXXVIII No. 906*.
general *Type 313
general *BP II 59, 246, 335, 516ff., III 40
general *Fb "nøgle" II 511b

Within the index

Filed under Proverbial simile.

Filed beside it

"Bridegroom like the sun and bride like the moon."

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Old chosen rather than new. Fortunate choice

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