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Motif

Suitor contest: tournament.

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Filed across the traditions
  • English Wells 147 (Ipomedon)
  • Icelandic Boberg
  • Italian Novella *Rotunda
  • Jewish Neuman.
  • general *Type 508
  • general Cosquin Contes Indiens 329ff.
  • general *Liljeblad 39ff.
  • general Dickson 181
Within the index

Filed under Suitor contests: bride offered as prize.

1 finer motif beneath it
Suitor contest: success in battle
Filed beside it
Suitor contest: difficult riding 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.)
Carried in tale types

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