Tasks accomplished with help of grateful dead

Motif

Tasks accomplished with help of grateful dead.

Tests. · Tests of prowess: tasks. · Assignment and performance of tasks. · Performance of tasks. · Help in performing tasks. · view the constellation · filed as H972

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

IndiaThompson-Balys.
general *Type 507A

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Filed under Help in performing tasks.

1 finer motif beneath it

Tasks performed by captive spirits of the dead

Filed beside it

Task performed with help of old person 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

Carried in tale types

The Grateful Dead · ATU 5054 recorded variants
The Monster's Bride · ATU 5071 recorded variant

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