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

Motif

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.

Tests. · Tests of prowess: tasks. · Assignment and performance of tasks. · Assignment of tasks. · Tasks imposed. · view the constellation · filed as H901.1

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth *Cross
Icelandic *Boberg
Greek Fox 119, Frazer Apollodorus II 160 n. 2 → on our shelf: The Library (Bibliotheca), APOLLODORI BIBLIOTHECA, ch. 33
India Thompson-Balys
Japanese Ikeda.
general *Types 329, 507A
general *BP III 368
general *Taylor Romanic Review IV 21ff.
general *Brown Iwain 137 n. 1

Within the index

Filed under Tasks imposed on pain of death.

Filed beside it

Tasks imposed on pain of death of relative (friend, hostage, etc.) Bird must bring orphan to king or bird will be killed

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

Bag of winds. Wind is confined in a bag. Man breaks prohibition against looking into bag and releases winds Transformation: man to swine Transformation: woman to bitch Transformation: man to dove Transformation: man (woman) to almond tree Transformation by drinking Disenchantment from tree form by embrace of lover Moly: magic plant Magic lotus plant. (Cf. D975.1.) Magic drink Magic chair Lotus causes forgetfulness. (Cf. D965.6, D2004.3.)

Carried in tale types

Hiding from the Princess (previously Hiding from the Devil) · ATU 329 2 recorded variants

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