Princess offered to correct guesser

Motif

Princess offered to correct guesser.

Tests. · Tests of cleverness. · Tests in guessing. · view the constellation · filed as H511

Scholars’ trail — 4references

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.

ItalianBasile Pentamerone I No. 5
India*Thompson-Balys.
general *Type 621
general BP III 483

Within the index

Filed under Tests in guessing.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Three caskets. Princess offered to man who chooses correctly from three caskets Test: to guess which of veiled sisters has golden hair

Filed beside it

Guessing with life as wager Guessing contest between kings Test: guessing trolls' names in order to save one's life Curse evaded by guessing names in magic writing Test: guessing unknown propounder's name Test: guessing unknown animal (plant)Test: guessing nature of devil's possessions Test: guessing person's thoughts Test: guessing princess's birthmarks Question: "What is under my cloak?" Questioner has branch of blackthorn laden with berries under her cloak Guessing: whether more of a certain stone is above or below ground. A test set by heathen king for a saint Guessing sex of unborn child (or animal)

Carried in tale types

The Louse-Skin · ATU 8572 recorded variants

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