Suitor task: to bring back food as a marriage present — Mythoi

Motif

Suitor task: to bring back food as a marriage present.

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Filed across the traditions

Chinese Graham.

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: cutting open magic gourd Suitor task: killing ferocious animal Suitor task: to defeat enemies Suitor task: making weather calm. (Cf. D2141.0.8.1.)

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Task: killing certain man. (Cf. H335.3, H335.5, H335.6.)

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