Woman seeks unknown father of her child.
Tests. · Tests of prowess: quests. · Nature of quests. · Miscellaneous quests. · view the constellation · filed as H1381.2.1
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
- Greco-RomanThe Library (Bibliotheca), APOLLODORI BIBLIOTHECA, ch. 33
- Greco-RomanThe Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK II, ch. IV
- IndicThe Mahābhārata, Book 1, Section CXXXIV
- Middle EasternThe Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments, Chapter 27
- Literary CrystallizationThe Vision; or, Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, Paradise 6
Scholars’ trail — 7references
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.
- IcelandicBoberg
- Missouri FrenchCarrière
- IndiaThompson-Balys
- S. Am. Indian (Chiriguano)Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 484
- general *Type 551
- general BP II 394ff.
- general (Tupinamba): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 132.
Carried in tale types
- Water of Life (previously The Sons on a Quest for a Wonderful Remedy for their Father) · ATU 5518 recorded variants