Tests

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• Quest for girl hero has seen in dream. H1381.3.1.2.2
• Quest for dangerous maiden as bride. H1381.3.1.2.3
• Quest for bride for dwarf. H1381.3.1.3
• Quest for Glass Princess. H1381.3.2
• Quest for clever woman. H1381.3.3
• Quest for princess transformed into skein of silk. H1381.3.4
• Quest for woman exactly like another. H1381.3.5
• Quest for persecuted woman. H1381.3.6
• Quest for princess hidden by father. H1381.3.7
• Quest for queen of fairies. H1381.3.8
• Quest for son of sinless couple. H1381.4
• Hero seeks his equal. (Cf. H1311.1.) H1381.5
• Quest for unknown son. H1381.6
• Quest for unknown bridegroom who has certain name and is only son among seven children of father. H1381.7
• Quest for unknown objects or places. H1382
• Quest for unknown magic words. Hero seeks them on the heads of swallows, the necks of swans, the backs of geese, and the tongues of reindeer. H1382.1
• Quest for unknown story (epic). H1382.2
• Quest for unknown lines of poem. H1382.2.1
• Quest for unknown wonder. H1382.3
• Quest for unknown animal. H1383
• Quest for unknown puppy-hound. H1383.1
• Quest for lost persons. H1385
• Unspelling quest: journey to disenchant (free) captives. H1385.0.1
• Quest for stolen princess. H1385.1
• Quest for vanished daughter. H1385.2
• Quest for vanished wife (mistress). H1385.3
• Quest for vanished wife and son. Husband seeks wife and son in many countries. H1385.3.1
• Quest for vanished husband. H1385.4
• Quest for husband who has been reincarnated as cat. H1385.4.1
• Quest for vanished lover. (Cf. H1381.2.1.1.) H1385.5
• Quest for lost sister. H1385.6
• Quest for lost father. (Cf. H1216.) H1385.7
• Quest for lost grandfather. H1385.7.1
• Quest for lost brother(s). H1385.8
• Quest for lost (stolen) family. H1385.9
• Quest for lost prince (king). H1385.10
• Quest for lost uncles. H1385.11
• King in quest of his prime minister who has left him in anger. H1385.12
• Quest for lost object. H1386
• Quest for lost horn. H1386.1
• Quest for missing ring. H1386.2
• Quest for lost bird. H1386.3
• Quest for lost ecclesiastical rule. H1386.4
• Quest: answer to certain question. H1388
• Question: What is it women most desire. Answer: Sovereignty. H1388.1
• Quest for armor from a grave mound. H1392
• Quest for gold from a grave mound. H1392.1
• Quest to distant sage for advice. H1393
• Quest for person who has not known sorrow. H1394
• Heroes seek judgment as to which is greatest. (Cf. H1311.1.) H1395
• Quest for light-giving child. H1396
• Quest for enemies. H1397
• Quest for witch stepmother. (Cf. S31.) H1397.1
• Quest for enemy's children. H1397.2
• Fear test. A person is put to various tests in the attempt to make him show fear. H1400
• Deity assumes frightful guises to frighten child. H1401
• Chief of dead assumes frightful guises to frighten visitors. H1401.1
• Ogress assumes frightful guises to frighten messengers. H1401.2
• Fear test: behaving as if enemy is coming in order to see who will flee and who will stay and fight. H1405
• Suitor tested by apparent threats to his person. H1406
• Fear test: serpent put in flour so that fearless youth kneads it into the dough. H1407
• Test: going without fear through a wilderness filled with all manner of beasts. H1408
• Fear test: staying in frightful place. H1410
• Fear test: staying in haunted house. H1411
• Fear test: staying in haunted house where corpse drops piecemeal down chimney. Dead man's members call out to hero, "Shall we fall, or shall we not?" H1411.1
• Fear test: staying in haunted house where horse carcass drops down chimney. H1411.1.1
• Fear test: staying in haunted house infested by cats. H1411.2
• Fear test: night watch with magic cats. H1411.2.1
• Fear test: staying in enchanted castle at night where the devil gives a moral speech and prophesies. H1411.3
• Fear test: spending night in house (hall) haunted by demon (monster). H1411.4
• Fear test: spending night in church. H1412
• Fear test: going into the church at night and ringing the bell. H1412.1
• Fear test: staying under gallows at night. H1415
• Fear test: spending night by grave. H1416
• Fear test: taking boy to frightful enemy's tent. H1418
• Fearless traffic with devils. H1420
• Fear test: playing cards with devil in church. H1421
• Hero plays skittles with demons. H1421.1
• Fear test: cutting devil's fingernails. H1422
• Fear test: fighting with spirits. H1423
• Fear test: passing through door guarded by savage hound and armed soldier. H1423.1
• Fear test: undergoing terrifying experience out of doors on Hallowe'en. H1423.2
• Fear test: bringing from a hill, seized by a demon, the fattest of goats. H1423.3
• Fearless traffic with ghosts. H1430
• Fear test: stealing clothes from ghosts. H1431
• Fear test: playing game with reassembled dead man. (Cf. H1411.1, H1421.) H1433
• Fear test: eating and drinking from skulls. H1434
• Fear test: fetching skulls from a charnel house. H1435
• Fear test: keeping goal in hurling-match for corpses. H1436
• The learning of fear. H1440
• Fearless hero frightened by being awakened with cold water. H1441
• Fearless hero frightened by being awakened by eels put down his back. H1441.1
• Vigilance test. H1450
• Waking contest. H1450.1
• Test: speechless vigil in church. H1451
• Test: vigil at tomb. H1460
• Test: sitting up with corpse. Wake. H1461
• Vigil for dead father. H1462
• Vigil for dead father: youngest son alone endures frightful experiences. Ceiling, floors, and walls knock together. H1462.1
• Three-night watch over grave to guard man from devil. H1463
• Other vigilance tests. H1470
• Watch for devastating monster. Youngest alone successful. H1471
• Watch for thieves in the king's garden. H1471.1
• Test: sleeping by princess three nights without looking at her or disturbing her. H1472
• Accomplishment of vigilance test. H1480
• Thumb cut and salt put on it in order to remain awake. H1481
• Dirk stuck into thigh in order to keep from sleeping. H1482
• Grains slowly munched in order to keep from sleeping. (Cf. H1471.) H1483
• Continual pricking with pin in order to remain awake. H1484
• Large fire and water for washing eyes as device of expectant lover. H1484.1
• Tests of endurance. H1500
• Endurance test: long dancing. Girl tires out many partners. H1501
• Test: enduring hardship. Tested by making girl serve woman who has leprosy, etc. H1502
• Endurance test: scalding mush scattered on heroine's naked body; rasp-tongued dogs lick wounds. H1503
• Test: sleeping naked on floor in cold. (Suitor test.) H1504
• Test: sewing clothes into boy's hands and tearing them off together with the skin. H1505
• Endurance test: hero maintains silence in the snake pit. H1506
• Hero pursues and kills fugitive in spite of bleeding wounds. H1507
• Test: long praying. H1508
• Test: repeating incantation continuously for months. H1508.1
• Tests of power to survive. Vain attempts to kill hero. H1510
• Heat test. Attempt to kill hero by burning him in fire. H1511
• Heat test: swallowing red-hot stones. H1511.1
• Test: swallowing heated brass and iron ornaments. H1511.1.1
• Burning food test. Attempt to kill hero by feeding him burning food. H1511.2
• Smoke test. Attempt to kill hero by smoke. H1511.3
• Smoking test. Attempt to kill hero by having him smoke fatal pipe. H1511.4
• Cold test. Attempt to freeze hero to death. H1512
• Poisoned food test. Attempt to kill hero by feeding him poisoned food. H1515
• Attempt to poison by druids. H1515.1
• Poisoned drink test. Attempt to kill saint by giving him poisoned drink. H1515.2
• Test: food with thorns. Hero given food in which thorns are hidden. H1515.3
• Poisoned clothing test. Attempt to kill hero by poisoning clothing. H1516
• Test: bite of poisonous snake. H1517
• Clam test. Hero is sent to capture a giant clam, so that he can be killed. H1521
• Killing trees threaten hero. H1522
• Bent tree test. Bent tree is released so as to tear hero to pieces. H1522.1
• Clashing rocks test: hero to pass between them. H1525
• Spine test. Attempt to kill hero by throwing him on sharp spine or spike. H1531
• Test: dancing on sharp instruments. H1531.1
• Vain attempt to kill hero on stairway set with razors. H1531.2
• Wedge test. Hero is caught in cleft of tree. H1532
• Hanging test. Unavailing attempt to kill hero by hanging. H1533
• Plank test. Attempt to kill hero by letting plank fall on him. H1534
• Precipice test. Hero is pushed over a precipice. H1535
• Pit test. Hero thrown into pit. H1535.1
• Toboggan test. Attempt to kill hero on dangerous toboggan. H1536
• Test: playing game with ferocious beast. H1537
• Bear demands that heroine play Blindman's Buff. H1537.1
• Drowning test. Unavailing attempt to drown hero. H1538
• Contests in endurance. H1540
• Contest in enduring cold. H1541
• Contest in enduring cold: frost and the hare. Hare tries to deceive frost by lying on frozen snow and saying, "Oh, how warm!" H1541.1
• Contest in enduring cold: wind overcomes frost. H1541.2
• Contest in enduring heat. H1542
• Contest in crossing river of fire. H1542.1
• Contest in remaining under water. (Cf. H1538.) H1543
• Contest in enduring thirst. H1544
• Contest in fasting. H1545
• Tests of character. H1550
• Bad character shown by the eyes. H1550.1
• Tests of generosity. H1552
• Which was the most generous – husband, robber, or lover? Woman has promised her lover to go to him on her wedding night. Husband lets her go. On way she meets robbers and tells her story. Robbers take her to her lover. She tells what has happened. Lover returns her immediately to her husband. H1552.1
• Which was most generous – husband, lover, or magician (similar)? H1552.1.1
• Contest in generosity. Ruler vies with minister in generosity. Minister declared loser and condemned to die. Pardoned on acknowledging defeat. H1552.2
• Tests of patience. H1553
• Philosopher teaches son to beg before stone statues. In this way he will acquire patience. H1553.1
• Test of patience: king accepts strong reproof and criticism. H1553.2
• Test of patience: those who wish to enter city gate must endure insults of old men there who mock them. H1553.3
• Man shows his patience by accepting blow in face with stool thrown by his superior in monastery. H1553.4
• Monk fails in test of patience. He tries to live alone to test it. One day he loses his temper at a cup which overturns and he breaks it. [Inadvertant duplication of W185.4.] H1553.5
• Test of patience by asking irrelevant riddles. H1553.6
• Test of curiosity. (Cf. H1557.) H1554
• Test of curiosity: mouse in jug. The new Eve. A woman has boasted of a lack of curiosity and blamed Mother Eve. The king entertains her in his castle. She may see everything but must not look into a certain silver jug. She does so and finds a mouse in it. (Cf. H1557.2.) H1554.1
• Test of curiosity: the clock. A man is promised a beautiful clock if he can mind his own business for a whole year. He does. The giver tells him he is the second man who almost made sure of getting the clock. The man asks how the other missed getting it; he loses the clock himself. H1554.2
• Test of curiosity: the paternoster. Plowman is promised a horse if he can say a paternoster without thinking of anything else. In the midst of the recitation, he asks if he will get the saddle and bridle too. He loses bargain. H1554.3
• Tests of honesty. H1555
• Test of honesty: man entrusted with treasure. H1555.1
• Tests of fidelity. H1556
• Fidelity of servant tested. H1556.0.1
• Test of fidelity (loyalty) of guard. (Faithful unto death.) H1556.0.2
• Test of fidelity by feigning death. H1556.1
• Cock feigns death to see what hens will say about him. H1556.1.1
• Test of fidelity through submitting hero to temptations. H1556.2
• Test of fidelity through offering suspected assassin opportunity to commit the murder. H1556.3
• Fidelity in love tested. H1556.4
• Lover's fidelity tested by going to bed with mistress and only kissing. H1556.4.1
• Lover's fidelity tested by making love to maid. H1556.4.2
• Wife tests her husband's fidelity by tempting him in the guise of another woman. H1556.4.2.1
• Lover's fidelity tested by substituting maid in mistress's bed at assignation. He must refuse her. H1556.4.3
• Old uncle tests nephew's fidelity by sleeping with his beloved. H1556.4.4
• Husband's (wife's) willingness to die for mate disappears when Death seems to arrive. H1556.4.5
• Old woman's willingness to die for daughter disappears when Death seems to arrive. H1556.4.5.1
• Rose given by supernatural wife to husband when he leaves for home will shed as many petals as times he thinks of her. H1556.4.6
• Test of fidelity by feigning sleep in same bed as calumniated hero or alone in the forest with him. H1556.5
• Tests of obedience. H1557
• Obedience of sons tested by offering them apple. They are each offered a slice of apple. The king says, "Open your mouth and receive what I give you". Eldest son insulted; youngest obeys and receives kingdom as reward. (Cf. H1558.0.1.1.) H1557.1
• Adam's (Eve's) disobedience blamed: blamer immediately disobeys orders. (Cf. H1554.1.) H1557.2
• Old man contented till forbidden to leave city. Immediately disobeys. H1557.3
• Pope tests women's disobedience: not to look into box. (Cf. H1554.1.) They do so and are not allowed to hear confession. H1557.4