Suitor contest: bending bow of woman's absent husband — Mythoi

Motif

Suitor contest: bending bow of woman's absent husband.

Tests. · Marriage tests. · Suitor tests. · Suitor tests. · view the constellation · filed as H331.4.2

Filed across the traditions

Greek Frazer Apollodorus II 300 n. 3 → on our shelf: The Library (Bibliotheca), APOLLODORI BIBLIOTHECA, ch. 33
Japanese Ikeda.

Within the index

Filed under Suitor contest: shooting.

Filed beside it

Suitors contest with bride's father in shooting

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

Bag of winds. Wind is confined in a bag. Man breaks prohibition against looking into bag and releases winds Transformation: man to swine Transformation: woman to bitch Transformation: man to dove Transformation: man (woman) to almond tree Transformation by drinking Disenchantment from tree form by embrace of lover Moly: magic plant Magic lotus plant. (Cf. D975.1.) Magic drink Magic chair Lotus causes forgetfulness. (Cf. D965.6, D2004.3.)

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