Witch assigns tasks

Motif

Witch assigns tasks.

Tests. · Tests of prowess: tasks. · Assignment and performance of tasks. · Assignment of tasks. · Assigners of tasks. · view the constellation · filed as H935

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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.

LithuanianBalys Index No. 1137A*.
general Type 480, *Roberts
general BP I 207

Within the index

Filed under Assigners of tasks.

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 in order to get rid of hero Tasks assigned to devil (ogre)Princess sets hero tasks. (Cf. H335.)Relative assigns tasks. (Cf. H912–H914.)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

The Kind and the Unkind Girls (previously The Spinning-Women by the Spring · ATU 4808 recorded variants

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