Girl rescued by skillful companions: to whom does she belong? — Mythoi

Motif

Girl rescued by skillful companions: to whom does she belong?

Tests. · Tests of cleverness. · Riddles. · The unsolved problem: enigmatic ending of tale. · view the constellation · filed as H621.2

Filed across the traditions

India *Thompson-Balys.
general *Type 653
general *BP III 45

Within the index

Filed under Skillful companions create woman: to whom does she belong? Woodcarver carves a doll, tailor clothes her, gardener gives her speech (or the like). (Answer sometimes given: her father, her mother, or her husband).

Filed beside it

Skillful companions resuscitate girl: to whom does she belong?

Carried in tale types

The Four Skillful Brothers · ATU 653 16 recorded variants
The Rarest Thing in the World · ATU 653A 4 recorded variants
The Suitors Restore the Maiden to Life · ATU 653B 1 recorded variant

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