Other assigners of tasks

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Other assigners of tasks.

Tests. · Tests of prowess: tasks. · Assignment and performance of tasks. · Assignment of tasks. · Assigners of tasks. · view the constellation · filed as H939

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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.

Irish mythCross.

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4 finer motifs beneath it

Tasks assigned by druid Tests imposed on woman by prospective paramour Tasks set by cruel sisters-in-law to get tigress Giant assigns task

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.)Witch assigns tasks Tasks assigned because of longings of pregnant woman Task assigned by dying child Fairy assigns tasks. (Cf. H1219.4.)

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