Task performed with help of supernatural wife

Motif

Task performed with help of supernatural wife.

Tests. · Tests of prowess: tasks. · Assignment and performance of tasks. · Performance of tasks. · Help in performing tasks. · view the constellation · filed as H974

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Scholars’ trail — 4references

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
GreekGrote I 219
India*Thompson-Balys
JapaneseAnesaki 357, Ikeda.

Within the index

Filed under Help in performing tasks.

1 finer motif beneath it

Task performed with help of mistress

Filed beside it

Task performed with help of old person Tasks accomplished with help of grateful dead Tasks performed by helpful forest spirits 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

Travels with

Riddles solved with aid of propounder's wife. (Cf. G530.2, H335.0.1, H974.)

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