Test: threading needle. Guest of convent is given choice of nuns. On the morrow he is given three opportunities to thread a needle. Success means reward, failure confiscation of his belongings

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Test: threading needle. Guest of convent is given choice of nuns. On the morrow he is given three opportunities to thread a needle. Success means reward, failure confiscation of his belongings.

Tests. · Tests of cleverness. · Test of cleverness or ability. · view the constellation · filed as H509.1

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.

Italian NovellaRotunda.

Within the index

Filed under Tests of cleverness or ability: miscellaneous.

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Contest in making mouths water. Hero uses certain berry that always causes mouths of onlookers to water Chess game as test Tests of poetic ability. (Cf. H503.)Test: telling skillful lie

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