Tasks imposed on pain of death of relative (friend, hostage, etc.)

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Tasks imposed on pain of death of relative (friend, hostage, etc.).

Tests. · Tests of prowess: tasks. · Assignment and performance of tasks. · Assignment of tasks. · Tasks imposed. · view the constellation · filed as H901.0.1

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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.

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Bird must bring orphan to king or bird will be killed Heads placed on stakes for failure in performance of task. Unsuccessful youths are beheaded and heads exposed. Hero sees them when he sets out to accomplish his task

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