Tests of poetic ability. (Cf. H503.)

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Tests of poetic ability. (Cf. H503.)

Tests. · Tests of cleverness. · Test of cleverness or ability. · view the constellation · filed as H509.4

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.

Irish mythCross
India*Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Tests of cleverness or ability: miscellaneous.

3 finer motifs beneath it

Test: supplying missing half-stanza Riddles proposed as tests of poetic ability Understanding poem as test

Filed beside it

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 Chess game as test Test: telling skillful lie

Travels with

Test of musical ability. (Cf. H509.4.)

wander