Race with princess for her hand

Motif

Race with princess for her hand.

Tests. · Marriage tests. · Suitor tests. · Suitor tests. · view the constellation · filed as H331.5.1

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

IndicThe Mahābhārata, Book 14, Section LXXXI
IndicThe Mahābhārata, Book 5, Section CLXVII
IndicThe Mahābhārata, Book 6, Section XVI

Scholars’ trail — 4references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

Missouri FrenchCarrière
ItalianBasile Pentamerone III No. 8
GreekFox 59.
general *Types 513, 514

Within the index

Filed under Suitor contest: race.

1 finer motif beneath it

Apple thrown in race with bride. Distracts girl's attention and as she stops to pick it up, suitor passes her. (Atalanta.)

Filed beside it

Loser in bride-race must die Suitor contest: race with bride's father Suitor test: winning horse-race three times Suitor test: boat race

Carried in tale types

Six Go through the Whole World · ATU 513A12 recorded variants

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