The constellation
H561 Solvers of riddles
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The same sky, in words
filed under
- Propounding of riddles · H540 entry
beneath it
- Clever peasant girl asked riddles by king · H561.1 entry
- King and abbot. King propounds three riddles to abbot to answer on pain of death. Herdsman disguises as abbot and answers questions · H561.2 entry
- Solomon and Marcolf. Witty questions and answers between youth and servant · H561.3 entry
- King and clever youth. King asks questions; youth returns riddling answers · H561.4 entry
- King and clever minister. King propounds riddles and questions to his clever minister · H561.5 entry
- King and peasant vie in riddling questions and answers · H561.6 entry
- Druid as solver of riddles · H561.7 entry
- Cleric as solver of riddles · H561.8 entry
- Clever prince interprets enigmatic statements · H561.9 entry
- Saint as solver of riddles · H561.10 entry
keeps company
- Heads placed on stakes for failure in performance of task. Unsuccessful youths are beheaded and heads exposed. Hero sees them when he sets out to accomplish his task · H901.1 entry
- Race won by deception: chariot disabled. A rival in a chariot race inserts linchpins of wax instead of those of bronze in the hero's chariot. The latter is dragged to death · K11.4 entry
- Suitors put off till web is woven. Unwoven each night. (Penelope.) · K1227.2 entry
- Husband in disguise begs food of his wife's suitors · K1568 entry
- Humble disguise. (Cap o' Rushes, Peau d'âne Allerleirauh.) Usually in rough clothing. (Cf. K521.4.3, K1812, K1816.) · K1815 entry
- Disguise as beggar (pauper) · K1817.1 entry
- Disguise as madman (fool) · K1818.3 entry
- Innocent man compelled to write treasonable letter. It brings about his death sentence · K2156 entry
- Fifty ships promised. Forty-nine are moulded out of earth · K236.1 entry
- Stolen goods taken to dupe's house so that he is accused · K401.2 entry
attested in
- The Library (Bibliotheca) · APOLLODORI BIBLIOTHECA, ch. 33