Girl will not drink of water which had no father or mother (i.e., stagnant).
Tests. · Tests of cleverness. · Riddles. · Enigmatic statements. · view the constellation · filed as H599.1
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
- Middle EasternThe Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments, Chapter 26
- GermanicGrimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 1111.— BKOTHEE AND SISTER.
- GermanicGrimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 1313.— THE THREE LITTLE MEN IN THE
- GermanicGrimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 169169.— THE HUT IN THE FOEEST.
- North American IndigenousZuni Folk Tales, Tale 28
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.
- IndiaThompson-Balys.