Princess offered to man who can out-riddle her

Motif

Princess offered to man who can out-riddle her.

Tests. · Tests of cleverness. · Riddles. · Propounding of riddles. · view the constellation · filed as H551

Scholars’ trail — 11references

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
FilipinoFansler MAFLS XII 278
AfricaWerner African 356.
general *Types 725, 851, 900
general BP I 188ff., 200
general Philippson FFC L 22
general *Chauvin V 192, 192 No. 113
general Fb "bejler" IV 31b
general Malone PMLA XLIII 414
general von der Hagen Gesammtabenteuer III *lxi
general Child V 493 s. v. "riddles". Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 851A*

Within the index

Filed under Propounding of riddles.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Man wins wife by instructing her how to answer her mother's riddles Woman gives self to solver of riddles

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 Riddle propounded with penalty for failure 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 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

Carried in tale types

Prophecy of Future Sovereignty (previously The Dream) · ATU 7252 recorded variants
The Princess who Cannot Solve the Riddle · ATU 8512 recorded variants

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