Suitor contest: difficult riding — Mythoi

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Suitor contest: difficult riding.

Tests. · Marriage tests. · Suitor tests. · Suitor tests. · view the constellation · filed as H331.1

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Filed under Suitor contests: bride offered as prize.

7 finer motifs beneath it

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

Filed beside it

Suitor contest: tournament Suitor contest: prize to one whose staff blooms. Told of Joseph in contest for Virgin Mary Suitor contest: shooting Suitor contest: race Suitor contest: wrestling. (Cf. H1562.9.) Suitor contest: aiming with missile Suitor contest: splitting antlers Suitor contest: trapping Suitor contest: carrying one hundred jugs of water from sea to castle in one day Princess given to the one confessing all his treachery Suitor contest: splitting block of wood Suitor contest: cheating Suitor contest: trial of strength Suitor contest: animal fight Suitor contest: throwing ball up to princess Suitor contest: eating one hundred carcasses at a sitting. (Cf. H1141.)

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