King sends hero to otherworld to carry message to king's dead father

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King sends hero to otherworld to carry message to king's dead father.

Tests. · Tests of prowess: quests. · Nature of quests. · Quests to the other world. · Quests to the other world. · view the constellation · filed as H1252.4

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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 *Cosquin Contes indiens 405ff.

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Filed under Quest to other world for relative.

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Quest to other world for ancestor Quest to other world to take letters to dead relatives Quest for relatives sold to the otherworld

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