Quests to the other world.
Tests. · Tests of prowess: quests. · Nature of quests. · Quests to the other world. · Quests to the other world. · view the constellation · filed as H1250
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
- BuddhistThe Jataka, or Stories of the Buddha's Former Births, Book I
- IrishOld Celtic Romances: Translated from the Gaelic, Tale 7THE PURSUIT OF THE GILLA DACKER AND HIS HORSE.
- WelshThe Mabinogion, KILHWCH AND OLWENKILHWCH AND OLWEN
- SlavicRussian Folk-Tales, Chapter III
- ReferenceThe Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged), Chapter XXIXXXIX. The Myth of Adonis
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.
- Irish myth*Cross.
- general *Siuts Jenseitsmotive 226–232
Within the index
6 finer motifs beneath it