Quest for princess caused by sight of one of her hairs dropped by a bird (or floating on river).
Tests. · Tests of prowess: quests. · Attendant circumstances of quests. · Quest assigned. · view the constellation · filed as H1213.1
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 7references
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.
- Icelandic*Boberg
- India*Thompson-Balys
- JapaneseIkeda.
- general *Chauvin VI 5 No. 182 n. 1
- general *BP III 31, 33
- general *Cosquin Contes indiens 369ff.
- general Chavannes III 258f. No. 470 (cf. Wesselski Archiv Orientální I 6)
Within the index
Filed under Quest for remarkable bird caused by sight of one of its feathers.
2 finer motifs beneath it
Filed beside it
Carried in tale types
- The Clever Horse (previously Ferdinand the True and Ferdinand the False) · ATU 531216 recorded variants