The constellation
H1292 Answers found in other world to questions propounded on the way. (Cf. H1278, H1282, H1283, H1284.)
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- Question (propounded on quest): Why has spring gone dry? Answer: Animal to be removed from its water-vein · H1292.1 entry
- Question (propounded on quest): Why does not a certain tree flourish? Answer: Gold is hidden under it (or a serpent is under its roots) · H1292.2 entry
- Question (propounded on quest): Why do the live stock die? (Various answers.) · H1292.3 entry
- Question (propounded on quest): How can the prince be cured? Answer: He must remove stone which he has spit out in the church · H1292.4 entry
- Question (on quest): How can the girl thus far avoided by suitors marry? (Various answers.) · H1292.5 entry
- Question (on quest): Where is the lost key? (Various answers.) · H1292.6 entry
- Question (on quest): Where is the lost princess? (Various answers.) · H1292.7 entry
- Question (on quest): When will a ferryman be released from his duty? Answer: When he is able to get out of the boat and leave the oar in another's hand · H1292.8 entry
- Question (on quest): When will a certain water-animal be freed from an annoyance? (Various answers) · H1292.9 entry
- Question (on quest): How can mice rid themselves of cats? (Answer: tie on bell.) · H1292.10 entry
- Question (on quest): How can ants secure longer life? (Answer: by doing without wings.) · H1292.11 entry
- Question (on quest): Where does Bras-de-Fer (Ver-sous-Terre) live? · H1292.12 entry
- Question (on quest): Have you see my prince? · H1292.13 entry
- Question (propounded on quest): Why can't the dragon king ascend to the sky? · H1292.14 entry
- Question (propounded on quest): Why can't the child talk or the dog bark? · H1292.15 entry
- Question (propounded on quest): Why is the cow so severely beaten every day by her calf? Answer: in her last birth she had been the young of her present calf and had treated it the same way · H1292.16 entry
- Question (propounded on quest): Is a poor shepherd known to God? Answer: He had been a very generous god-fearing person in his last birth and God had not forgotten him · H1292.17 entry
- Question (propounded on quest): When can certain structure be finished? Answer: When king's daughter marries · H1292.18 entry
- Question (propounded on quest): How can a man and woman be freed from their annoyance · H1292.19 entry
- Question (propounded on quest): Why does kingdom go well by day and burn by night? · H1292.20 entry
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