What is most beloved? Health.
Tests. · Tests of cleverness. · Riddles. · Riddles of the superlative. · view the constellation · filed as H647.2
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
- IndicThe Mahābhārata, Book 5, Section XXXIII
- Hermetic / AlchemicalThe Hermetic Museum, Restored and Enlarged, Tract 1: The Golden Tract Concerning the Stone of the Philosophers
- Middle EasternThe Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments, Chapter 13
- Indian / Hindu (Sanskrit epic)The Ramayan of Valmiki (Griffith verse translation), Book 1, Canto 1
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.
- general De Vries FFC LXXIII 94.
Carried in tale types
- The Clever Farmgirl [J1111 · ATU 875702 recorded variants