Successful suitor must have cheeks like blood, skin like snow and hair like a raven. (Cf. Z65.1.)

Motif

Successful suitor must have cheeks like blood, skin like snow and hair like a raven. (Cf. Z65.1.)

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Irish myth*Cross.

Within the index

Filed under Physical and mental requirements for suitors.

Filed beside it

Successful suitor to be without blotches Successful suitor must have gold teeth Suitors chosen with feet as only part seen Successful suitor must have whitest hands. Blacksmith qualifies because of frequent washing of hands Suitor test: correct wearing of clothes Suitor test: to be able to go through a wall Bridegroom-to-be has to have three pecks, three quarts of gold and an animal with a horn on his head pointing to the sky, and a large red hair

Travels with

Red as blood, white as snow. Often from blood on snow as a suggestion, a wish is made for a child (wife) with skin like snow and cheeks like blood, etc. (Sometimes black as a raven.)

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