Motif
Courtship mediated by repeated purchases and gifts
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A motif of the Sacred Exchange and Reciprocity family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
romanian
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Roumanian Fairy Tales HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY / COPYRIGHT, 1885, / PREFACE. / CONTENTS.; lines 2520-2663 confidence: high
The next tale, 'The Princess and the Fisherman,' opens; a young, fine-looking fisherman passes the imperial palace, and the emperor's daughter buys his fish for ten times their worth.
Repeated fish purchases, overpayment, a hand-press, and gifts of money and clothing structure the princess's courtship of the fisherman.
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