Task: stealing twelve horses out of stall. (Cf. H1151.13.3.)

Motif

Task: stealing twelve horses out of stall. (Cf. H1151.13.3.)

Tests. · Tests of prowess: tasks. · Nature of tasks. · Tasks: stealing, capturing, or slaying. · view the constellation · filed as H1151.2

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

general *Type 1525
general *Fb "hest".

Within the index

Filed under Theft as a task.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Task: stealing horse when owner has been forewarned Task: stealing king's horse as he rides on it

Filed beside it

Task: stealing golden apples Task: stealing sheet from bed on which person is sleeping Task: stealing ring from finger Task: stealing belt from queen Task: stealing elephant's tail (tusks)Task: stealing the two horns of a savage bull Task: stealing cattle which are guarded by a marvelous dog Task: stealing troll's golden horse Task: bringing branch from tree guarded by ghosts Task: bringing a baby lion's tail to use as broom Task: stealing eggs from under bird Task: stealing from a king Task: stealing sword from giant Task: stealing goddess Freya's necklace Task: stealing the mead of poetry Task: stealing the bait of the demon Añan

Travels with

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

Carried in tale types

Tasks for a Thief (previously Theft of Dog, Horse, Sheet, or Ring) · ATU 1525A6 recorded variants

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