Task: causing silent person to speak

Motif

Task: causing silent person to speak.

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

IndiaThompson-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 13511 recorded variant
Fisher Husband of the Princess · ATU 879A1 recorded variant

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