μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Tests of endurance.

Tests. · Other tests. · Tests of endurance and power of survival. · Tests of endurance. · view the constellation · filed as H1500

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Endurance test: long dancing. Girl tires out many partners Test: enduring hardship. Tested by making girl serve woman who has leprosy, etc Endurance test: scalding mush scattered on heroine's naked body; rasp-tongued dogs lick wounds Test: sleeping naked on floor in cold. (Suitor test.) Test: sewing clothes into boy's hands and tearing them off together with the skin Endurance test: hero maintains silence in the snake pit Hero pursues and kills fugitive in spite of bleeding wounds Test: long praying

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