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Suitors assigned quests.

Tests. · Marriage tests. · Suitor tests. · Suitor tests. · view the constellation · filed as H336

Attested across traditions
Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth *Cross
  • English Wells 115 (Sir Eglamore)
  • German Grimm Nos. 6, 62, 93, 96, 97, 106, 137, 163, 197
  • Icelandic *Boberg
  • Africa (Fjort) Dennett 74.
  • general *Types 513, 514
Within the index

Filed under Suitor tests. A suitor is put to severe tests by his prospective bride or father-in-law.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Prospective father-in-law requires that suitor for his daughter's hand visit foreign country (otherworld?) to learn feats of arms Suitor required to catch wild animals. (Cf. H335.3.)
Filed beside it
Tests for hero, husband of supernatural (divine) wife Brother unwittingly qualifies as bridegroom of sister in test Inspection test for suitors. Suitors for princess's hand must present themselves for public inspection. (Cf. H362, T55.7.) Physical and mental requirements for suitors Suitor test: obedience and humility before bride Suitor's sincerity tested Suitor test: to whom the princess turns. Rival suitors sleep with princess. The one she turns to is to have her. They vie in enticements Suitor test: apple thrown indicates princess's choice. (Often golden apple.) Long term of service imposed on suitor Suitor preferred who will pay enormous sum for bride Suitor test: hiding from princess. She has magic sight Suitor test: finding princess Suitor test: learning girl's name Suitor test: choosing princess from others identically clad Suitor test: skill Suitor test: cleverness and learning
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Devastating bison (buffalo) Ant grateful for preventing destruction of nest Duck recovers lost key from sea Man carried on goat's horns. (Goat is transformed man.) Tabu: speaking during certain time Transformation: man to whale Transformation: man to goat (he-goat, she-goat, kid etc.) Transformation: man to raven Transformation: man to smoke Castle magically made smaller Men transformed to animals fight Gradual disenchantment. (Cf. D617.)

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