Motif
Animal household courtship through a servant intermediary
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A motif of the Sacred Love and Longing family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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germanic
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Household Tales by Brothers Grimm Household Tales by Brothers Grimm / CONTENTS / FIRST STORY; lines 5903-5964 confidence: medium
An old fox with nine tails suspects his wife, lies under a bench as if dead, while Mrs. Fox shuts herself in her room and Miss Cat sits by the fire cooking.
Anthropomorphic fox suitors court Mrs. Fox by speaking through Miss Cat, who answers the door and relays messages.
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