Quest for vanished wife (mistress).
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Motif
Filed across the traditions
- Irish myth *Cross
- Icelandic *Boberg
- Hindu Tawney I 407ff.
- India *Thompson-Balys
- Chinese Graham
- Oceanic Dixon 70–72 (New Zealand, Mangaia, Nieue, Chatham Island, Hawaii, New Britain, Admiralty Islands), 139 (New Hebrides), 220 (Indonesia), De Vries's list No. 221 (Indonesia)
- Eskimo (Greenland) Rasmussen I 222, III 75, Rink 145, (West Hudson Bay): Boas BAM XV 180.
- general *Type 400
Within the index
Filed under Quest for lost persons.
1 finer motif beneath it
Filed beside it
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Carried in tale types
- The Man on a Quest for his Lost Wife · ATU 400 72 recorded variants
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