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

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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

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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.

IrishBeal XXI 308f., O'Suilleabhain 27f.
JapaneseIkeda.
general Types 460, 461
general *Aarne FFC XXIII 142f.

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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.

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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

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

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