Suitor task: cutting open magic gourd

Motif

Suitor task: cutting open magic gourd.

Tests. · Marriage tests. · Suitor tests. · Suitor tests. · view the constellation · filed as H335.2

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

Indo-ChineseScott Indo-Chinese 290.

Within the index

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

Filed beside it

Bride helps suitor perform his tasks Girl assigns tasks to her suitors 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: 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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