The constellation
H331 Suitor contests: bride offered as prize
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- Suitor contest: difficult riding · H331.1 entry
- Suitor contest: tournament · H331.2 entry
- Suitor contest: prize to one whose staff blooms. Told of Joseph in contest for Virgin Mary · H331.3 entry
- Suitor contest: shooting · H331.4 entry
- Suitor contest: race · H331.5 entry
- Suitor contest: wrestling. (Cf. H1562.9.) · H331.6 entry
- Suitor contest: aiming with missile · H331.7 entry
- Suitor contest: splitting antlers · H331.8 entry
- Suitor contest: trapping · H331.9 entry
- Suitor contest: carrying one hundred jugs of water from sea to castle in one day · H331.10 entry
- Princess given to the one confessing all his treachery · H331.11 entry
- Suitor contest: splitting block of wood · H331.12 entry
- Suitor contest: cheating · H331.13 entry
- Suitor contest: trial of strength · H331.14 entry
- Suitor contest: animal fight · H331.15 entry
- Suitor contest: throwing ball up to princess · H331.16 entry
- Suitor contest: eating one hundred carcasses at a sitting. (Cf. H1141.) · H331.17 entry
keeps company
- Wit combat. Test in repartee · H507 entry
- Land sinks and lake appears as punishment · Q552.2.1 entry
- Daughter unwittingly promised to dog rescuer. (Cf. B620.1.) Without knowing that a dog has rescued her, the father offers her in marriage to her rescuer · S247 entry
- Husband and wife kill themselves so as not to be separated · T211.3 entry
- Lecherous brother. Wants to seduce (marry) his sister · T415.1 entry
- Misshapen child from brother-sister incest. (Cf. T415.) · T550.3 entry
- Princess offered as prize to rescuer · T68.1 entry
- Dog worship · V1.8.3 entry
- Casting of image of Buddha delayed until a maniac's mite is thrown into the furnace · V125 entry
- City-gods · A412 entry
carried in tale type
- Six Go through the Whole World · ATU 513A
- The Land and Water Ship · ATU 513B
Thompson cites
- The Kalevala · Rune III
- Myths & Legends of China · Chapter XVI