μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 5references

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.

  • LithuanianBalys Legends No. 754
  • Jamaica*Beckwith MAFLS XVII 275 No. 86.
  • general *Type 812
  • general BP III 12ff.
  • general Fb "spørgsmål" III 524b
Within the index

Filed under Propounding of riddles.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Devil held off from person by answering his riddles. St. Andrew the Bishop, and the Devil. The Devil, in form of beautiful maiden visits a holy bishop. St. Andrew appears as a pilgrim, answers the questions through which the devil seeks to keep him at a distance and discomfits the devil. (Cf. B302.22.3.)Child in cradle guesses devil's riddle: all are saved
Filed beside it
Supernatural creatures propound riddles. (See also H541.1.1, H543, G681.)Queen propounds riddlesKing propounds riddlesSaint as propounder of riddlesBridegroom propounds riddles at wedding feastRiddle propounded with penalty for failureDeath sentence escaped by propounding riddle king (judge) cannot solveAnswers found in other world to riddles propounded on wayRiddle contestsPrincess offered to man who can out-riddle herMan marries girl who guesses his riddlesSolvers of riddlesInscription 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
Travels with
Student is helped by devil when he can answer three questions in rhyme. (Cf. H543.)
Carried in tale types

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