Quest for three hairs from devil's beard

Motif

Quest for three hairs from devil's beard.

Tests. · Tests of prowess: quests. · Nature of quests. · Quests to the other world. · Quest to lower world. · view the constellation · filed as H1273.2

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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.

general *Type 461
general *Aarne FFC XXIII 126, 131.

Within the index

Filed under Quest to devil for objects.

Filed beside it

Quest to devil in hell for return of contract

Carried in tale types

Three Hairs from the Devil's Beard · ATU 4611 recorded variant

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