Reward: any boon that may be asked — Mythoi

Motif

Reward: any boon that may be asked.

Rewards and punishments. · Nature of rewards. · Material rewards. · view the constellation · filed as Q115

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth *Cross
India *Thompson-Balys
Buddhist myth Malalasekera II 946, 1153.
general *Schoepperle II 420ff., 528–541
general Malone PMLA XLIII 413

Within the index

Filed under Material rewards.

3 finer motifs beneath it

Reward: any boon that may be asked – king's wife demanded King promises daughter she may marry anyone she desires Reward: any boon that may be asked – man asks only for son

Filed beside it

Riches as reward Half of kingdom as reward Knighthood as reward Gifts as reward. (Cf. Q111.5.) Favorable decree as reward Freedom as reward Wine as reward. Twelve jars of honey-sweet wine as reward for protection. (Cf. Q46.1.)

Carried in tale types

The Smith and the Devil (previously The Smith Outwits the Devil) · ATU 330 4 recorded variants

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