King with seven wives and seven mares. The seven wives pregnant for seven years, the seven mares seven years in foal

Motif

King with seven wives and seven mares. The seven wives pregnant for seven years, the seven mares seven years in foal.

Miscellaneous groups of motifs. · Formulas. · Other formulistic motifs. · view the constellation · filed as Z71.5.7

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.

IndiaThompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Formulistic number: seven.

Filed beside it

Formulistic numbers: sevenfold (e.g. 49, 70, 70,000, 7,777). (Cf. Z71.15.)Seven brothers and one sister Journey beyond seven seas Seven year's peace with no killing of men King for seven years Exile for seven years Seven as a number in religious and social records Seven brothers marry seven sisters

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