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

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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.

IrishCross Beal XXI 318f., O'Suilleabhain 50–52
India*Thompson-Balys
ChineseGraham.
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 460A1 recorded variant
Three Hairs from the Devil's Beard · ATU 4611 recorded variant

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