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| 853 *A. Princess is offered to one who can make her laugh. Hero plays guitar and is rewarded with magic napkin which provides food, glass which provides liquor and guitar which causes everyone to dance. He cannot make the princess laugh and is thrown into prison. He sells napkin to princess for permission to look at her toe; glass for permission to look at her knee; guitar to sleep with her (she must say no to everything he asks). They marry. Cf Mt 571—Mt 574 and Mt 850. an 1. ECPE no 177. | ||
| 854. | New Mexico: Espinosa JAF XXVII 135 no 16. Porto Rico: Mason-Espinosa JAF XXXVII 302 no 21; 312 no 22. (M. R. Cox, Cinderella London 1893, 'La candeliera'). an 1. BTPE I 178 = RSLT p. 44 (Golden parrot). Cf Mt 313 II d. | |
| *857. | Princess and king's barber fall in love. King forbids their marriage and princess runs away. King sends barber to seek her. In woods he bemoans fate that he has fallen in love with princess. She is hidden in tree trunk and bemoans fate that she has fallen in love with barber. He cannot discover from whence her voice proceeds and goes to sleep [T 47.1]. She takes his clothes, leaves her own and becomes barber to neighboring king [K 1837]. Barber in her clothes comes to same court and king falls in love with him in this disguise [K 1321]. King confides his love to his "barber". She steals back her own clothes and reveals all to the king. He arranges her marriage to the barber. [le] 1. ST p. 79. | |
| *859. | In bed servant says, "House of my father with one hundred and fifty lights and goatpen".. His master believes him to be of a wealthy family and marries his daughter to him. They go to visit his parents, arrive at a hut and he explains the lights are stars | |
