Quest to other world for ancestor

Motif

Quest to other world for ancestor.

Tests. · Tests of prowess: quests. · Nature of quests. · Quests to the other world. · Quests to the other world. · view the constellation · filed as H1252.1

Filed across the traditions

Babylonian Spence 170.

Within the index

Filed under Quest to other world for relative.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Quest to the other world to receive news of ancestor Quest to the other world to learn whether father is in heaven or hell

Filed beside it

Quest to other world to take letters to dead relatives Quest for relatives sold to the otherworld King sends hero to otherworld to carry message to king's dead father

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