Traveler says he must look after his net to see if it has taken fish. (He has left his lady seven years before with a pledge of faithfulness. Net has taken fish – lady has had lovers.) — Mythoi

Motif

Traveler says he must look after his net to see if it has taken fish. (He has left his lady seven years before with a pledge of faithfulness. Net has taken fish – lady has had lovers.)

Tests. · Tests of cleverness. · Riddles. · Enigmatic statements. · view the constellation · filed as H586.2.2

Filed across the traditions

English Child I 191 n.

Within the index

Filed under Traveler says he is going to the city to see what has become of the seed he sowed in the street. (What has become of the girl he left in the city to await his return.)

Filed beside it

Traveler says he is going to seek a hind that he saw in the woods ten years before. (A maiden.)

Carried in tale types

The Clever Young Woman at the End of the Journey · ATU 875D 1 recorded variant

ask the rhapsode about this motif · search the shelf for “faithfulness” · wander