• Greco-Roman The Library (Bibliotheca) , APOLLODORI BIBLIOTHECA, ch. 33
• Greco-Roman The Library (Bibliotheca) , BOOK II, ch. IV
• Indic The Mahābhārata , Book 1, Section CXXXIV
• Middle Eastern The Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments , Chapter 27
• Literary Crystallization The Vision; or, Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise , Paradise 6

• Irish myth *Cross
• English Wells 134 (Sir Degare)
• India Thompson-Balys
• Marquesas Handy 61, 131
• Hawaii Beckwith Myth 86, 514, 479
• Tonga Gifford 112.
• general *Type 707
• general BP II 380ff.

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• The Clever Horse (previously Ferdinand the True and Ferdinand the False) · ATU 531 864 recorded variants
• The Three Golden Children (previously The Three Golden Sons) · ATU 707 256 recorded variants
• The Youth on a Quest for his Lost Father · ATU 369 1 recorded variant