Task assigned before wife may rescue husband from supernatural power

Motif

Task assigned before wife may rescue husband from supernatural power.

Tests. · Tests of prowess: tasks. · Assignment and performance of tasks. · Assignment of tasks. · Assigners of tasks. · view the constellation · filed as H923.1

Filed across the traditions

German Grimm No. 181. → on our shelf: Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 181
general Type 316

Within the index

Filed under Tasks assigned before man may rescue wife from spirit world.

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

Transformation: watersprite to flood Transformation and disenchantment at will Disenchantment by throwing golden objects into water Otherworld at bottom of pond World at bottom of pond Recognition by unique manner of playing flute Tasks performed with help of old woman Task performed with aid of magic object Children sold or promised

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