Suitor contest: riding up mast (spear)

Motif

Suitor contest: riding up mast (spear).

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

Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

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

Suitor contest: riding up glass mountain Suitor contest: riding to fourth story of tower Suitor contest: riding across pit Suitor contest: riding through fire Suitor contest: jumping river on horseback Contest in reaping: best reaper to get beautiful girl as wife

Carried in tale types

The Princess on the Glass Mountain · ATU 53027 recorded variants

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