μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Suitor contest: shooting.

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Filed across the traditions
  • Icelandic Boberg
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Japanese Anesaki 295, Ikeda
  • Africa (Gold Coast) Barker and Sinclair 126.
  • general N. Am. Indian (Kutenai): Boas BBAE LIX 199 No. 64, (Sahaptin): Farrand MAFLS XI 157 No. 9, (Tsimshian): Boas BBAE XXVII 137, (Wichita): Dorsey CI XXI 130 No. 19, Dorsey Contributions to N. Am. Ethnology VI 604, (Pawnee): Grinnell 87 No. 1, Dorsey MAFLS VIII 113 No. 31, 239 No. 60, (Crow): Simms FM II 292 No. 13, (Dakota): Zitkala-Sa Old Indian Legends 77
  • general (Menomini): Skinner and Satterlee PaAM XIII 396 No. 25, (Seneca): Curtin-Hewitt RBAE XXXII 139, 318, 513, 567, (Wyandot): Barbeau GSCan XI 212, (Zuñi): Cushing 215
Within the index

Filed under Suitor contests: bride offered as prize.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Suitors contest with bride's father in shooting Suitor contest: bending bow of woman's absent husband
Filed beside it
Suitor contest: difficult riding Suitor contest: tournament Suitor contest: prize to one whose staff blooms. Told of Joseph in contest for Virgin Mary 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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