King: What is your brother doing? Youth: He runs back and forth. (Plows.)

Motif

King: What is your brother doing? Youth: He runs back and forth. (Plows.)

Tests. · Tests of cleverness. · Riddles. · Enigmatic statements. · view the constellation · filed as H583.3.1

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

general *De Vries FFC LXXIII 128ff.

Within the index

Filed under King: What is your brother doing? Youth: He hunts; he throws away what he catches and what he does not catch he carries with him. (Hunts for lice on his body.)

Filed beside it

King: What is your brother doing? Youth: He sits between heaven and earth. (In a tree.)

Carried in tale types

The King and the Farmer's Son · ATU 92126 recorded variants

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