What is hardest? Parent's heart (said by child being sacrificed)

Motif

What is hardest? Parent's heart (said by child being sacrificed).

Tests. · Tests of cleverness. · Riddles. · Riddles of the superlative. · view the constellation · filed as H637.1

Scholars’ trail — 3references

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general *De Vries De Sage van het ingemetselde Kind (Nederlandsch tijdschrift voor volkskunde XXXII 192ff.)
general BP III 43
general *Krappe Balor 165ff.

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Filed under Riddle: what is the hardest?

Filed beside it

What is the hardest? Death

Carried in tale types

The Clever Farmgirl [J1111 · ATU 875702 recorded variants

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