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)

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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

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Scholars’ trail — 7references

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.

India*Thompson-Balys
IndonesiaDe Vries's list No. 199
Africa (Fjort)Dennett 33 No. 3
Cape Verde IslandsParsons MAFLS XV (1) 112 No. 39.
general *Type 945
general *BP III 53ff.
general Tille FFC XXXIV 254

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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

Luck and Intelligence · ATU 9454 recorded variants

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