Tales ending with a question — Mythoi

Motif

Tales ending with a question.

Miscellaneous groups of motifs. · Formulas. · Formulistic framework for tales. · view the constellation · filed as Z16

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Middle Eastern The Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments , Chapter 17

Filed across the traditions

Africa Werner African 359.
general *Type 653
general *BP III 45
general Basset RTP VII 188
general Cosquin Revue d'Ethnographie et des Traditions Populaires I 62, II 41

Within the index

Filed under Formulistic framework for tales.

1 finer motif beneath it

Four brothers construct a woman. Whose is she?

Filed beside it

Beginning formulas End formulas Transition formulas Endless tales. Hundreds of sheep to be carried over stream one at a time, etc. The wording of the tale so arranged as to continue indefinitely Unfinished tales. Just as the interest is aroused the narrator quits. "If the bowl had been stronger my tale had been longer." Catch tales. The manner of the telling forces the hearer to ask a particular question, to which the teller returns a ridiculous answer "Runs." Conventional passages of set form within a tale, usually recited in a different voice from the rest Tale avoiding all pronouns Rounds. Stories which begin over and over again and repeat Formulistic conversations Formulistic frameworks – miscellaneous

Carried in tale types

The Four Skillful Brothers · ATU 653 32 recorded variants
The Rarest Thing in the World · ATU 653A 4 recorded variants
The Suitors Restore the Maiden to Life · ATU 653B 1 recorded variant

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