Old woman helps on quest.
Tests. · Tests of prowess: quests. · Attendant circumstances of quests. · Accomplishment of quests. · view the constellation · filed as H1233.1.1
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
- Indian / Hindu (Sanskrit epic)The Ramayan of Valmiki (Griffith verse translation), Book 3, Canto 73
- IndicThe Mahābhārata, Book 3, Section CXXXI
- Greco-RomanThe Aeneid, Book 11
- IndicThe Mahābhārata, Book 1, Section CLXXV
- Indian / Hindu (Sanskrit epic)The Ramayan of Valmiki (Griffith verse translation), Book 4, Canto 34
Scholars’ trail — 4references
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.
- EnglishWells 68 (The Weddynge of Sir Gawen and Dame Ragnell)
- India*Thompson-Balys
- JapaneseIkeda.
- general Type 400, 425
Carried in tale types
- The Animal as Bridegroom · ATU 425A24 recorded variants