Riddle propounded with penalty for failure

Motif

Riddle propounded with penalty for failure.

Tests. · Tests of cleverness. · Riddles. · Propounding of riddles. · view the constellation · filed as H541

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.

India*Thompson-Balys.
general *Anderson FFC XLII 252

Within the index

Filed under Propounding of riddles.

3 finer motifs beneath it

Riddle propounded on pain of death. (Cf. H512.)Riddle propounded on pain of loss of property Riddle propounded on pain of loss of official position

Filed beside it

Supernatural creatures propound riddles. (See also H541.1.1, H543, G681.)Queen propounds riddles King propounds riddles Saint as propounder of riddles Bridegroom propounds riddles at wedding feast Death sentence escaped by propounding riddle king (judge) cannot solve Escape from devil by answering his riddles Answers found in other world to riddles propounded on way Riddle contests Princess offered to man who can out-riddle her Man marries girl who guesses his riddles Solvers of riddles Inscription on home of riddle-solver "I have no care."Riddle propounded from chance experience. On way to riddle trial youth sees things that give him a clue for his riddles

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