Question (propounded on quest): How can the princess be cured? Answer: She must recover consecrated wafer which rat has stolen from her first communion

Motif

Question (propounded on quest): How can the princess be cured? Answer: She must recover consecrated wafer which rat has stolen from her first communion.

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 H1292.4.1

Filed across the traditions

Irish Beal XXI 308f., O'Suilleabhain 27f.
Japanese Ikeda.
general Types 460, 461
general *Aarne FFC XXIII 142f.

Within the index

Filed under Question (propounded on quest): How can the prince be cured? Answer: He must remove stone which he has spit out in the church.

Filed beside it

Question (propounded on quest): How can snake be cured from blindness? Answer: By giving away his gem Question (propounded on quest): How can the cripple be healed? Answer: He must distribute his knowledge

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Witch gives away consecrated wafer after service. (Cf. H1292.4.1.)

ask the rhapsode about this motif · search the shelf for “consecrated” · wander