Tasks performed with help of old woman

Motif

Tasks performed with help of old woman.

Tests. · Tests of prowess: tasks. · Assignment and performance of tasks. · Performance of tasks. · Help in performing tasks. · view the constellation · filed as H971.1

Attested across traditions

Germanic Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes , Tale 9 receipt
Germanic Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes , Tale 14 receipt
Germanic Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes , Tale 29 receipt
Germanic Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes , Tale 122 receipt
Germanic Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes , Tale 125 receipt
Germanic Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes , Tale 133 receipt
Germanic Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes , Tale 181 receipt
Germanic Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes , Tale 186 receipt

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth *Cross
Scotch Macdougall and Calder 160
German Grimm Nos. 9, 14, 29, 122, 125, 133, 181, 186
Italian Novella Rotunda
Japanese Ikeda.
general Types 306, 510, 566, 567

Within the index

Filed under Task performed with help of old person.

Filed beside it

Task performed with help of little old men

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

Task performed with aid of magic object Quest to devil for answer to riddle questions. (Cf. H1282, H1283, H1284, H1292.) Devil in form of dragon Tabu: kissing. Usually causes disenchantment or magic forgetfulness. (Cf. D735, D2003.) Tabu: speaking during certain time Magic forgetfulness for breaking tabu Transformation: man to ant Transformation: watersprite to flood Transformation through thoughtless wish of parent Transformation by pinching flower (life token) Transformation and disenchantment at will Disenchantment by maintaining silence for a year or more

Carried in tale types

The King's Tasks · ATU 577 4 recorded variants

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