Quest to devil in hell for return of contract

Motif

Quest to devil in hell for return of contract.

Tests. · Tests of prowess: quests. · Nature of quests. · Quests to the other world. · Quest to lower world. · view the constellation · filed as H1273.1

Filed across the traditions

Irish Beal XXI 311, O'Suilleabhain 33.
general *Type 756B
general BP III 465
general *Plenzat Die Theophiluslegende in den Dichtungen des Mittelalters (Berlin, 1926)

Within the index

Filed under Quest to devil for objects.

1 finer motif beneath it

Quest to hell for return of contract from deceased rich man

Filed beside it

Quest for three hairs from devil's beard

Carried in tale types

Robber Madej (previously The Devil's Contract) · ATU 756B 108 recorded variants

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