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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

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“But leave me alone with your dreams : if you disturb me in my sleep again you will get a box on the ear." The grandmother spoke gently to him until he fell asleep again and snored. Then she took hold of the third golden hair and pulled it out. The devil jumped up, roared out, and would have treated her ill, but she quieted him once more and said, " Who can help bad dreams? " " What was the dream, then ?" asked he, and was quite curious.”

Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 29 · served from our shelf  receiptuncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

Attested across traditions
Scholars’ trail — 6references

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 myth*Cross
  • ScotchMacdougall and Calder 160
  • GermanGrimm Nos. 9, 14, 29, 122, 125, 133, 181, 186
  • Italian NovellaRotunda
  • JapaneseIkeda.
  • general Types 306, 510, 566, 567
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Task performed with help of little old men
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Task performed with aid of magic objectQuest to devil for answer to riddle questions. (Cf. H1282, H1283, H1284, H1292.)Devil in form of dragonTabu: kissing. Usually causes disenchantment or magic forgetfulness. (Cf. D735, D2003.)Tabu: speaking during certain timeMagic forgetfulness for breaking tabuTransformation: man to antTransformation: watersprite to floodTransformation through thoughtless wish of parentTransformation by pinching flower (life token)Transformation and disenchantment at willDisenchantment by maintaining silence for a year or more
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