Questions asked on way to other world

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Questions asked on way to other world.

Tests. · Tests of prowess: quests. · Nature of quests. · Quests to the other world. · Quests to the other world – miscellaneous motifs. · view the constellation · filed as H1291

Filed across the traditions

Irish Cross Beal XXI 318f., O'Suilleabhain 50–52
India *Thompson-Balys
Chinese Graham.
general *Type 461

Within the index

Filed under Quests to the other world – miscellaneous motifs.

Filed beside it

Answers found in other world to questions propounded on the way. (Cf. H1278, H1282, H1283, H1284.)

Carried in tale types

The Journey to God (Fortune) (previously The Journey to God to Receive Reward) · ATU 460A 1 recorded variant
Three Hairs from the Devil's Beard · ATU 461 1 recorded variant

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