Riddle: how far is it from happiness to misfortune? — Mythoi

Motif

Riddle: how far is it from happiness to misfortune?

Tests. · Tests of cleverness. · Riddles. · Riddles of distance. · view the constellation · filed as H685

Cited in the index

general Anderson FFC XLII 215.

Within the index

Filed under Riddles of distance.

1 finer motif beneath it

How far is it from happiness to misfortune? One day; yesterday I was herdsman and now I am abbot. (Cf. H561.2.)

Filed beside it

Riddles of terrestrial distance Riddles of heavenly distance. (Cf. A658.)

Carried in tale types

The Shepherd Substituting for the Clergyman Answers the King's Questions · ATU 922 4 recorded variants

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