The constellation
H314 Suitor's sincerity tested
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● motif
● tale type
● on the shelf
● attested
The same sky, in words
filed under
beneath it
keeps company
- Chastity test. Various means are employed to test a woman's (or man's) chastity · H400 entry
- Recognition by scar. (Cf. H56.) · H51 entry
- Disguise as doctor · K1825.1 entry
- Disguise of woman in man's clothes. (Cf. K1825.) · K1837 entry
- Uncharitableness punished. (Cf. Q494.1.1, Q552.3.0.1, Q571.2, Q572.2, Q574.2, Q585.1, Q595.3.) · Q286 entry
- Banishment because of disobedience. Maiden wants to become nun and not marry. (Cf. Q325.) · Q431.3 entry
- God refuses king a son on account of his many wars. (Cf. Q305.) · Q553.3.1 entry
- Murder by strangling. See references to Q424 · S113 entry
- Ceremony of the proclamation of a Buddha · V88 entry
- Blind god. Hödhr · A128.1 entry
Thompson cites
- Myths & Legends of China · Chapter X