The constellation
H509 Tests of cleverness or ability: miscellaneous
A constellation is one motif’s neighborhood in the record — the story-shapes filed around it, the tale types that carry it, and the texts where it is witnessed, every line a receipted link. Click a motif to travel. Click a text to read it. The entry · wander
● motif
● tale type
● on the shelf
● attested
The same sky, in words
filed under
beneath it
- Test: threading needle. Guest of convent is given choice of nuns. On the morrow he is given three opportunities to thread a needle. Success means reward, failure confiscation of his belongings · H509.1 entry
- Contest in making mouths water. Hero uses certain berry that always causes mouths of onlookers to water · H509.2 entry
- Chess game as test · H509.3 entry
- Tests of poetic ability. (Cf. H503.) · H509.4 entry
- Test: telling skillful lie · H509.5 entry