Tasks assigned prisoner so that he may escape punishment

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Tasks assigned prisoner so that he may escape punishment.

Tests. · Tests of prowess: tasks. · Assignment and performance of tasks. · Assignment of tasks. · Assigners of tasks. · view the constellation · filed as H924

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Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

IndiaThompson-Balys
Icelandic*Boberg.
general De Vries FFC LXXIII 309, 313

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Tasks assigned as ransom

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King (father) assigns tasks to his unknown son Departing husband assigns his wife tasks Tasks assigned before man may rescue wife from spirit world Tasks set by deity Tasks imposed as tribute Tasks assigned in order to get rid of hero Tasks assigned to devil (ogre)Princess sets hero tasks. (Cf. H335.)Relative assigns tasks. (Cf. H912–H914.)Witch assigns tasks Tasks assigned because of longings of pregnant woman Task assigned by dying child Fairy assigns tasks. (Cf. H1219.4.)Other assigners of tasks

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