Task: causing silent person to speak — Mythoi

Motif

Task: causing silent person to speak.

Tests. · Tests of prowess: tasks. · Nature of tasks. · Miscellaneous tasks. · view the constellation · filed as H1194.0.1

Filed across the traditions

India Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Task: making person laugh.

Filed beside it

Man whose laughter brings rain will not laugh: brought to laughter when people who, unknown to each other, have gone to sleep in same dark room frighten each other Task: making jackal laugh (weep)

Carried in tale types

The Silence Wager · ATU 1351 1 recorded variant
Fisher Husband of the Princess · ATU 879A 1 recorded variant

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