Suitor contest: race

Motif

Suitor contest: race.

Tests. · Marriage tests. · Suitor tests. · Suitor tests. · view the constellation · filed as H331.5

“See The Fragments of Sophocles, ὑποδήματα τοῖς ποσὶ περιέθηκε, καὶ κομίσας εἰς Πύλον τὰς μὲν λοιπὰς εἰς σπήλαιον ἀπέκρυψε, δύο δὲ καταθύσας τὰς μὲν βύρσας πέτραις καθή- λωσε, τῶν δὲ κρεῶν τὰ μὲν κατηνάλωσεν ἑψήσας τὰ δὲ κατέκαυσε' καὶ ταχέως εἰς Κυλλήνην ὥχετο. καὶ εὑρίσκει πρὸ τοῦ ἄντρου νεμομένην χελώνην. ταύτην ἐκκαθάρας, εἰς τὸ κύτος χορδὰς ἐντείνας ἐξ ὧν ἔθυσε βοῶν καὶ ἐργασάμενος λύραν εὗρε καὶ πλῆκτρον. ᾿Απόλλων δὲ τὰς Boas…”

— The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK III, ch. X · served from our shelf uncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

On our shelf — the index’s citations, resolved to served chapters

GreekThe Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK III, ch. XThompson cites: Frazer Apollodorus II 23 n. 5, 160 n. 2

Scholars’ trail — 7references

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.

Irish mythCross
GreekFrazer Apollodorus II 23 n. 5, 160 n. 2 → on our shelf: The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK III, ch. X
IndiaThompson-Balys
Africa (Vai)Ellis 189 No. 5
West IndiesFlowers 458.
general Dh III 145
general N. Am. Indian (Salishan): Hill-Tout British North America 229, (Shuswap): Teit JE II 684 No. 22, (Thompson River): Teit MAFLS VI 36 No. 7, (Skykomish): Haeberlin JAFL XXXVII 383 No. 9, (Achomawi): Curtin JAFL XXII 284 No. 2, (Arapaho): Dorsey and Kroeber FM V 105, (Ponca): Dorsey CNAE VI 333, (Menomini): Skinner and Satterlee PaAm XIII 396 No. 25, (California): Gayton and Newman 92

Within the index

Filed under Suitor contests: bride offered as prize.

5 finer motifs beneath it

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

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: shooting 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.)

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

God as thief God serves as menial on earth Origin of lyre. Hermes makes it from a tortoise Origin of shepherd's pipe Color of raven. (Cf. A2237.1, A2234.1, A2231.1, A2218.1)Magic power of seeing things underground Resuscitation by blood Escape by reversing horse's (ox's) shoes Birth of human being from an egg. (Cf. F611.1.11.)Precocious infant

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