Watch for devastating monster. Youngest alone successful — Mythoi

Motif

Watch for devastating monster. Youngest alone successful.

Tests. · Other tests. · Tests of vigilance. · Other vigilance tests. · view the constellation · filed as H1471

Filed across the traditions

Irish MacCulloch Celtic 148f., *Cross
India *Thompson-Balys
N. Am. Indian Thompson CColl II 334ff.
general *Types 301, 550
general BP I 503, *514
general MacCulloch Childhood 350
general *Hdwb. d. Märchens I 207b

Within the index

Filed under Other vigilance tests.

1 finer motif beneath it

Watch for thieves in the king's garden

Filed beside it

Test: sleeping by princess three nights without looking at her or disturbing her

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Grains slowly munched in order to keep from sleeping. (Cf. H1471.)

Carried in tale types

The Princess on the Glass Mountain · ATU 530 81 recorded variants
Bird, Horse and Princess (previously Search for the Golden Bird) · ATU 550 80 recorded variants

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