Guessing with life as wager

Motif

Guessing with life as wager.

Tests. · Tests of cleverness. · Tests in guessing. · view the constellation · filed as H512

Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

IndiaThompson-Balys.
general *Type 500, 922
general *Anderson FFC XLII 252

Within the index

Filed under Tests in guessing.

Filed beside it

Princess offered to correct guesser 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)

Travels with

Riddle propounded on pain of death. (Cf. H512.)

Carried in tale types

The Shepherd Substituting for the Clergyman Answers the King's Questions · ATU 9222 recorded variants

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