ATU 884 The Forsaken Fianc'e: Service as Menial

ATU 884

The Forsaken Fianc'e: Service as Menial

Aarne–Thompson–Uther tale-type index · Religious Tales · The full type description is not served here; the number and name are the classification facts.

Motifs the recorded variants carry

Forgotten fiancée. Young husband visiting his home breaks tabu and forgets his wife. Later she succeeds in reawakening his memory. (For details of the ways in which the memory is lost and regained see D2004 and D2006. 4 variants
Recognition through picture. Picture is publicly displayed and brings about recognition of lost person. 4 variants
Test of sex of girl masking as man. 4 variants
Girl in menial disguise at lover's court. 4 variants
Disguise of woman in man's clothes. (Cf. K1825.) 4 variants
Wife finds lost husband just as he is to marry another. 4 variants
Lovers treacherously separated. 2 variants
Hero returns and marries first love. 2 variants
Bride and groom separated on wedding night. 2 variants

Type numbers and names after Aarne–Thompson–Uther, via Hagedorn, trilogy (2022), CC-BY-NC-SA; motif links weighted by the dataset’s recorded tale variants. Served as classification facts with attribution.