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Motif

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).

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

Filed across the traditions
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Indonesia De Vries's list No. 199
  • Africa (Fjort) Dennett 33 No. 3
  • Cape Verde Islands Parsons MAFLS XV (1) 112 No. 39.
  • general *Type 945
  • general *BP III 53ff.
  • general Tille FFC XXXIV 254
Within the index

Filed under The unsolved problem: enigmatic ending of tale.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Skillful companions resuscitate girl: to whom does she belong? Girl rescued by skillful companions: to whom does she belong?
Filed beside it
Hare and pig race across ditch. Each fails in his own way, pig behind hare. Which is winner?
Carried in tale types

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