Quest to lower world

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Quest to lower world.

Tests. · Tests of prowess: quests. · Nature of quests. · Quests to the other world. · Quest to lower world. · view the constellation · filed as H1270

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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.

Irish*Cross, Beal XXI 323
Icelandic*Boberg
IndiaThompson-Balys
TuamotuStimson MS (z-G. 13/276).

Within the index

8 finer motifs beneath it

Quest for Cerberus in hell: to be brought to earth Quest for devils in hell; hero brings them back with him Quest to devil for objects Quest in hell for three dragon feathers. (Cf. B11.)Quest for money (treasure) in hell Quest to lower world for lost words Quest to confines of hell for blood of sorceress Quest to devil for answer to riddle questions. (Cf. H1282, H1283, H1284, H1292.)

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