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H335 Tasks assigned suitors. Bride as prize for accomplishment. (For nature of tasks see H1000ff.)
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- Bride helps suitor perform his tasks · H335.0.1 entry
- Girl assigns tasks to her suitors · H335.0.2 entry
- Devil as suitor assigned tasks · H335.0.3 entry
- Suitor tasks announced by inscription on statue · H335.0.4 entry
- Goddess assigns task to her mortal suitor · H335.0.5 entry
- Suitor task: avenging bride's father's death before marriage · H335.1 entry
- Suitor task: cutting open magic gourd · H335.2 entry
- Suitor task: killing ferocious animal · H335.3 entry
- Suitor task: to defeat enemies · H335.4 entry
- Suitor task: to bring back food as a marriage present · H335.5 entry
- Suitor task: making weather calm. (Cf. D2141.0.8.1.) · H335.6 entry
keeps company
- Tasks assigned at own unwitting suggestion. Jason thus sent for the Golden Fleece · H917 entry
- Cumulative tasks: second assigned so that first can be done · H941 entry
- Imitation of magic rejuvenation unsuccessful. (Cf. J2401.) · J2411.1 entry
- Boxing match: fatal boxer defeated. All comers are challenged and all are killed until the hero defeats the challenger. (Argonauts and Amycus.) · K13 entry
- Prophesying through knowledge of animal languages · M302.1 entry
- Prophecy: death from hands of man with one sandal · M341.2.9 entry
- Old woman helper · N825.3 entry
- Punishment of Sisyphus. Must keep rolling a great stone up hill. It continually falls down · Q501.1 entry
- Horse-keeper rescues abandoned child · R131.8.1 entry
- Mortal fights with "Death". (Cf. R169.16.) · R185 entry
cross-ref
carried in tale type
- The King's Tasks · ATU 577
- The Land and Water Ship · ATU 513B
- The Rabbit-herd · ATU 570
Thompson cites
- The Kalevala · Rune VII
- The Library (Bibliotheca) · BOOK I, ch. IX