Task: selling three old women. (Devil finds that no one wants them.) — Mythoi

Motif

Task: selling three old women. (Devil finds that no one wants them.)

Tests. · Tests of prowess: tasks. · Nature of tasks. · Tasks: stealing, capturing, or slaying. · view the constellation · filed as H1153

Cited in the index

general *Type 1170
general BP III 16.

Within the index

Filed under Tasks: stealing, capturing, or slaying.

Filed beside it

Theft as a task Task: selling an animal and keeping him Tasks: capturing animals Task: taming wild animals. (Cf. H1154.3.) Task: incurring anger of ferocious animal Task: killing ferocious beast Task: killing certain man. (Cf. H335.3, H335.5, H335.6.) Task: uprooting man-devouring tree. (Cf. H335.) Task: bullfight (buffaloes) Task: duel Task: bringing an ogre to court Task: luring Thor into the power of giants Suitor test: killing monster Bringing fairies to court

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Marital experiences of the devil. (Cf. H1153, K216.1, K2325, T251.1.1.)

Carried in tale types

The Unsalable Woman (previously The Evil Woman in the Glass Case as Last Commodity) · ATU 1170 1 recorded variant

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