Task: stealing three pearls from king's heavily guarded treasury

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Task: stealing three pearls from king's heavily guarded treasury.

Tests. · Tests of prowess: tasks. · Nature of tasks. · Tasks: stealing, capturing, or slaying. · view the constellation · filed as H1151.13.5

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The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

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Filed under Task: stealing from a king.

Filed beside it

Task: stealing pigskin from a king Task: stealing spear from a king Task: stealing horses (and chariot) from a king. (Cf. H1151.2.)Task: stealing hound from a king

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