Hero plays skittles with demons — Mythoi

Motif

Hero plays skittles with demons.

Tests. · Other tests. · Tests of fear. · Fearless traffic with devils. · view the constellation · filed as H1421.1

Filed across the traditions

German Grimm No. 4. → on our shelf: Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 4

Within the index

Filed under Fear test: playing cards with devil in church.

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

Speaking cat Magic bed Resuscitation by warming dead man Revenant as dog. (Cf. E421.3.6.) Revenant as old man Fear test: going into the church at night and ringing the bell Ogre's (dwarf's) beard caught fast Dressmaker (milliner, etc.) Adultery punished. (Cf. Q411.0.1, Q413.2, Q414.0.2, Q416.1.1, Q418.1, Q421.0.2, Q421.0.6, Q424.2, Q428.1, Q431.8, Q432.2, Q434.1, Q451.1.5, Q451.2.4, Q451.4.8, Q451.5.1, Q451.6.1, Q451.14, Q455.2, Q456.0.1, Q457.3, Q458.0.1, Q461.3, Q466.1, Q469.1, Q473.0.2, Q473.1.1, Q473.2.1, Q478.1, Q478.2, Q478.3, Q484, Q493.1, Q499.2.1, Q537.1, Q552.3.0.3, Q555.2, Q587.) Hanging as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Several men marry one woman

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