Girl assigns tasks to her suitors

Motif

Girl assigns tasks to her suitors.

Tests. · Marriage tests. · Suitor tests. · Suitor tests. · view the constellation · filed as H335.0.2

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.

Irish myth*Cross
Italian NovellaRotunda
JapaneseIkeda.
general *De Vries FFC LXXIII 308

Within the index

Filed under Tasks assigned suitors. Bride as prize for accomplishment. (For nature of tasks see H1000ff.)

2 finer motifs beneath it

Suitor task: to study philosophy for five years Suitor task: prince to learn a trade

Filed beside it

Bride helps suitor perform his tasks Devil as suitor assigned tasks Suitor tasks announced by inscription on statue Goddess assigns task to her mortal suitor Suitor task: avenging bride's father's death before marriage Suitor task: cutting open magic gourd Suitor task: killing ferocious animal Suitor task: to defeat enemies Suitor task: to bring back food as a marriage present Suitor task: making weather calm. (Cf. D2141.0.8.1.)

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