Suitor contest: riding up mast (spear) — Mythoi

Motif

Suitor contest: riding up mast (spear).

Tests. · Marriage tests. · Suitor tests. · Suitor tests. · view the constellation · filed as H331.1.3

Cited in the index

general *BP III 113 n. 3
general N. Am. Indian (Chilcotin): Farrand JE II 43.

Within the index

Filed under Suitor contest: difficult riding.

1 finer motif beneath it

Suitor test: jumping over high hedge

Filed beside it

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Carried in tale types

The Princess on the Glass Mountain · ATU 530 27 recorded variants

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