Chess game as test — Mythoi

Motif

Chess game as test.

Tests. · Tests of cleverness. · Test of cleverness or ability. · view the constellation · filed as H509.3

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth *Cross.

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Filed under Tests of cleverness or ability: miscellaneous.

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

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