Quest for lion's milk

Motif

Quest for lion's milk.

Tests. · Tests of prowess: quests. · Nature of quests. · Quest for dangerous animals. · view the constellation · filed as H1361

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Scholars’ trail — 6references

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.

BretonSébillot Incidents s. v. "lait"
JewishNeuman
IndiaThompson-Balys.
general *Type 590
general BP III 2
general *Wesselski Märchen 242 No. 53

Within the index

Filed under Quest for dangerous animals.

7 finer motifs beneath it

Cubs furnish lion's (tiger's, etc.) milk to hero Quest for tiger's milk Quest for bear's milk Quest for wolf's milk Quest for wild dog's milk Quest for hare's milk Quest for cheese made from milk of wild white buffaloes. (Cf. H1362.1.)

Filed beside it

Quest for devastating animals Quest for wonderful but vicious horse Quest for demon-owned cows

Carried in tale types

The Faithless Mother (previously The Prince and the Arm Bands) · ATU 590432 recorded variants

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