Quest for lost sister — Mythoi

Motif

Quest for lost sister.

Tests. · Tests of prowess: quests. · Nature of quests. · Miscellaneous quests. · view the constellation · filed as H1385.6

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth *Cross
Icelandic *Boberg
India *Thompson-Balys.
general Type 471

Within the index

Filed under Quest for lost persons.

Filed beside it

Unspelling quest: journey to disenchant (free) captives Quest for stolen princess Quest for vanished daughter Quest for vanished wife (mistress) Quest for vanished husband Quest for vanished lover. (Cf. H1381.2.1.1.) Quest for lost father. (Cf. H1216.) Quest for lost brother(s) Quest for lost (stolen) family Quest for lost prince (king) Quest for lost uncles King in quest of his prime minister who has left him in anger

Carried in tale types

The Bridge to the Otherworld · ATU 471 4 recorded variants

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