The constellation
H548 Riddle contests
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
- Propounding of riddles · H540 entry
beneath it
- King and rabbi exchange riddles · H548.1 entry
cross-ref
filed beside
- Supernatural creatures propound riddles. (See also H541.1.1, H543, G681.) · H540.1 entry
- Queen propounds riddles · H540.2 entry
- King propounds riddles · H540.3 entry
- Saint as propounder of riddles · H540.4 entry
- Bridegroom propounds riddles at wedding feast · H540.5 entry
- Riddle propounded with penalty for failure · H541 entry
- Death sentence escaped by propounding riddle king (judge) cannot solve · H542 entry
- Escape from devil by answering his riddles · H543 entry
- Answers found in other world to riddles propounded on way · H544 entry
- Princess offered to man who can out-riddle her · H551 entry