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Motif

Suitor test: choosing princess from others identically clad.

Tests. · Marriage tests. · Suitor tests. · Suitor tests. · view the constellation · filed as H324

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth Cross
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Indonesia Dixon 217
  • Chinese Graham
  • Japanese Ikeda.
  • general *Type 554
  • general BP II 28
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Filed under Suitor tests. A suitor is put to severe tests by his prospective bride or father-in-law.

1 finer motif beneath it
Suitor test: choosing sweetheart's sedan chair from thirty others like it
Filed beside it
Tests for hero, husband of supernatural (divine) wife Brother unwittingly qualifies as bridegroom of sister in test Inspection test for suitors. Suitors for princess's hand must present themselves for public inspection. (Cf. H362, T55.7.) Physical and mental requirements for suitors Suitor test: obedience and humility before bride Suitor's sincerity tested Suitor test: to whom the princess turns. Rival suitors sleep with princess. The one she turns to is to have her. They vie in enticements Suitor test: apple thrown indicates princess's choice. (Often golden apple.) Long term of service imposed on suitor Suitor preferred who will pay enormous sum for bride Suitor test: hiding from princess. She has magic sight Suitor test: finding princess Suitor test: learning girl's name Suitor test: skill Suitor test: cleverness and learning Suitor test: power of endurance

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