Suitor contest: riding across pit — Mythoi

Motif

Suitor contest: riding across pit.

Tests. · Marriage tests. · Suitor tests. · Suitor tests. · view the constellation · filed as H331.1.4

Cited in the index

general *BP III 113 n. 2.

Within the index

Filed under Suitor contest: difficult riding.

Filed beside it

Suitor contest: riding up glass mountain Suitor contest: riding to fourth story of tower Suitor contest: riding up mast (spear) 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 530 27 recorded variants

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