Task performed with help of old person

Motif

Task performed with help of old person.

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

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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.

TongaGifford 159f.

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Filed under Help in performing tasks.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Tasks performed with help of old woman Task performed with help of little old men

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Tasks accomplished with help of grateful dead Tasks performed by helpful forest spirits Task performed with help of supernatural wife Tasks performed by deity Task performed by mysterious stranger Tasks performed with help of brother Animals help man perform task Task performed with help of angel. (Cf. N810.)Tasks performed with help of saint Task performed with help of druid Help in performance of tasks: invisible hands Task performed with aid of magic object

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