Motif
borrowed or handsome clothing as deceptive attraction
borrowed_or_handsome_clothing_as_deceptive_attraction
A motif of the Trickster and Boundary Crosser family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
afro caribbean
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Jamaica Anansi Stories RIDDLES. / INDEX TO RIDDLES. / ABBREVIATIONS OF TITLES. / NOTES.; lines 13377-13483 confidence: medium
Borrowed clothes appear in multiple versions; in Milne-Home the story ends with the dropping of the clothes, while in Jekyll and two Beckwith versions the monster carries the girl to a den or “stone-hole.”
Borrowed clothes appear in multiple versions, and one variant has a girl wed a disguised beast because of his handsome clothes.
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