Princess defeated in repartee by means of objects accidentally picked up. E. g., Hero: What red lips you have! Princess: There is fire inside. – Hero: Then boil this egg (producing egg)

Motif

Princess defeated in repartee by means of objects accidentally picked up. E. g., Hero: What red lips you have! Princess: There is fire inside. – Hero: Then boil this egg (producing egg).

Tests. · Tests of cleverness. · Test of cleverness or ability. · view the constellation · filed as H507.1.0.1

Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

N. Am. IndianThompson CColl II 414ff.
general Type 851

Within the index

Filed under Princess offered to man who can defeat her in repartee.

Filed beside it

King defeated in repartee by boy, who thus wins girl. Boy: "Who would give a man a bath, feed him his rice, and then bring him the tamal-pan to chew?" King: "No one but a wife." Boy claims minister's daughter Princess offered to man who can defeat her in argument

Carried in tale types

The Hero Catches the Princess with her Own Words · ATU 8531 recorded variant

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