Continual pricking with pin in order to remain awake

Motif

Continual pricking with pin in order to remain awake.

Tests. · Other tests. · Tests of vigilance. · Accomplishment of vigilance test. · view the constellation · filed as H1484

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

Irish mythCross.

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Filed under Accomplishment of vigilance test.

1 finer motif beneath it

Large fire and water for washing eyes as device of expectant lover

Filed beside it

Thumb cut and salt put on it in order to remain awake Dirk stuck into thigh in order to keep from sleeping Grains slowly munched in order to keep from sleeping. (Cf. H1471.)

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