Quest accomplished by means of objects given by helpers

Motif

Quest accomplished by means of objects given by helpers.

Tests. · Tests of prowess: quests. · Attendant circumstances of quests. · Accomplishment of quests. · view the constellation · filed as H1239.3

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

general Type 425
general Halliday Indo-European Folk-Tales (Cambridge, 1933) 135f.

Within the index

Filed under Accomplishment of quest – miscellaneous.

Filed beside it

Prince agrees to marry a servant girl if she will help him on a quest Objects of quest found in deserted castle where hero is served by unseen hands Man with magic knowledge defeats his competitors in quest by misinforming them about the character of country they will be traveling (for a place where there is no water he makes them bring loads of wood; for a place where water is he makes them bring along loads of water)Seductive women attempt to divert quester

Carried in tale types

Bird, Horse and Princess (previously Search for the Golden Bird) · ATU 55020 recorded variants

wander