Tasks assigned in order to get rid of hero

Motif

Tasks assigned in order to get rid of hero.

Tests. · Tests of prowess: tasks. · Assignment and performance of tasks. · Assignment of tasks. · Assigners of tasks. · view the constellation · filed as H931

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Scholars’ trail — 8references

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.

Italian NovellaRotunda
Icelandic*Boberg
GreekGrote I 110
JewishNeuman
India*Thompson-Balys
ChineseGraham
JapaneseAnesaki 357, Ikeda.
general *Types 428, 461

Within the index

Filed under Assigners of tasks.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Prince envious of hero's wife assigns hero tasks Disagreeable tasks set hero to do so that he will disobey and be killed

Filed beside it

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 assigned prisoner so that he may escape punishment Tasks set by deity Tasks imposed as tribute 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

Carried in tale types

Strong John · ATU 650A3888 recorded variants
The Faithless Mother (previously The Prince and the Arm Bands) · ATU 590144 recorded variants
Son of the Witch (Cupid and Psyche) (previously The Disenchanted Husband: the Witch's Tasks) · ATU 425B4 recorded variants
Lover Exposed (previously The Himphamp) · ATU 571B1 recorded variant

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