Stith Thompson motif index · Motif

Thompson K2135 — The complaint about bad breath: trouble for the king's favorite

K2135
Thompson motif reference
K
Deceptions
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Associated ATU tale types
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Description

Motif

The complaint about bad breath: trouble for the king's favorite. A steward advises the courtier to hold his head away when serving the king, since the king objects to his bad breath. He then tells the king that the courtier holds his head back to avoid the king's bad breath. Penzer II 113; *Chauvin VIII 144 No. 145 B; *Zs. f. Vksk. IX 188ff., 311ff.; *Oesterley No. 283; Herbert III 198; *Cosquin études 82, 116; *Paris Romania V 454ff.; Hertz Deutsche Sage im Elsass (1872) 283ff.; Dunlop-Wilson II 49; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; India: *Thompson-Balys.

Associated ATU tale types

Concordance

No ATU tale type in the current concordance points to this Thompson motif.

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