Bride test: bread-making – dough under fingernails. After three weeks the girl still has dough under her fingernails.
Tests. · Marriage tests. · Bride tests. · Bride test. · view the constellation · filed as H383.1.1
Motif
Filed across the traditions
- Russian Andrejev No. 1453*
- Lithuanian Balys Index No. 1454.*
- general Type 1453***
Carried in tale types
- Three-weeks-old Dough · ATU 1453*** 1 recorded variant
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