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• Suitor contest: throwing ball up to princess. H331.16
• Suitor contest: throwing iron ball. H331.16.1
• Suitor contest: eating one hundred carcasses at a sitting. (Cf. H1141.) H331.17
• Suitor in contest with bride or member of her family. H332
• Suitor in contest with bride. H332.1
• Suitor test: duel with bride. H332.1.1
• Suitor test: to defeat bride in game. H332.1.2
• Suitor test: to defeat bride at dice. H332.1.2.1
• Suitor test: to defeat bride in harping. H332.1.3
• Suitor test: tournament with bride. H332.1.4
• Shooting contest with bride-to-be. H332.1.5
• Suitor contest with brother-in-law. H332.2
• Suitor test: duel with father-in-law. H332.3
• Groom and his army have to fight bride's army. H332.4
• Girl demands suitor's life (or mutilation). H333
• Lover has head cut off at girl's desire. H333.1
• Suitor test: tribute of his severed hands. H333.2
• Tasks assigned suitors. Bride as prize for accomplishment. (For nature of tasks see H1000ff.) H335
• Bride helps suitor perform his tasks. H335.0.1
• Otherworld mistress instructs hero how to perform tasks (imposed by her mother). H335.0.1.1
• Bride's parents (supernatural) help suitor win in suitor contests. H335.0.1.2
• Girl assigns tasks to her suitors. H335.0.2
• Suitor task: to study philosophy for five years. H335.0.2.1
• Suitor task: prince to learn a trade. H335.0.2.2
• Devil as suitor assigned tasks. H335.0.3
• Suitor tasks announced by inscription on statue. H335.0.4
• Goddess assigns task to her mortal suitor. H335.0.5
• Suitor task: avenging bride's father's death before marriage. H335.1
• Suitor task: avenging bride's former fiance before marriage. H335.1.1
• Suitor task: cutting open magic gourd. H335.2
• Suitor task: killing ferocious animal. H335.3
• Suitor task: to kill dragon to whom the princess is to be sacrificed. H335.3.1
• Suitor task: killing lion guarding girl. H335.3.2
• Suitor task: to slay thieving boar. H335.3.3
• Suitor task: to kill treasure-guarding snake lying around the princess's chamber. H335.3.4
• Task: hero's servant must kill giant pig. H335.3.5
• Suitor task: killing tiger demons. H335.3.6
• Suitor task: to kill other monsters. H335.3.7
• Suitor task: to defeat enemies. H335.4
• Suitor task: to bring enemy's head. H335.4.1
• Suitor task: to overcome robbers. H335.4.2
• Suitor task: to kill all earlier suitors. H335.4.3
• Suitor task: to kill (defeat) unwelcome suitor. H335.4.4
• Suitor task: to bring back food as a marriage present. H335.5
• Suitor task: making weather calm. (Cf. D2141.0.8.1.) H335.6
• Suitor task: controlling violent tide. H335.6.1
• Suitors assigned quests. H336
• Prospective father-in-law requires that suitor for his daughter's hand visit foreign country (otherworld?) to learn feats of arms. H336.1
• Suitor required to catch wild animals. (Cf. H335.3.) H336.2
• Suitor test: faithfulness. H338
• Suitor test: keeping princess's secret. H338.1
• Suitor test: making princess laugh. Sadfaced princess has never laughed. H341
• Princess brought to laughter by people sticking together. H341.1
• Princess brought to laughter by small animals. H341.2
• Princess brought to laughter by foolish actions of hero. H341.3
• Princess brought to laughter by indecent show made in quarrel with old woman at well. H341.3.1
• Suitor test: outwitting princess. H342
• Suitor test: forcing princess to say, "That is a lie." H342.1
• Suitor test: bringing dumb princess to speak. H343
• Princess to marry man who can make her speak to him in all watches of the night. H343.0.1
• Dumb princess brought to speak by shepherd who insults her. H343.1
• Silent princess gives right answer when talking monkey is given wrong one by suitor-prince. H343.2
• Suitor test: entering princess's chamber. H344
• Princess to marry man who can give her correct account of what happened in her bedchamber. H344.1
• Suitor test: overcoming princess in strength. H345
• Suitor test: lifting strong princess's giant weapon. H345.1
• Suitor test: riding strong princess's horse. H345.2
• Princess given to man who can heal her. H346
• Maiden queen promises herself to the man who heals her husband and kills his bewitcher. H346.1
• Suitor test: to consort with princess without sleeping. Suitors are given sleeping potion. H347
• Suitor test: to live on small amount of food. H351
• Suitor test: to live on as much food as can be piled on a leaf. H351.1
• Suitor test: to make garden bloom in winter. (Cf. M261.1.) H352
• Suitor test: to plunge into a stream. H353
• Suitor test: finding an extraordinary object. H355
• Who will find the most marvelous thing? Each finds some marvelous thing. It turns out, that to save the girl's life all the things must be used together. H355.0.1
• Suitor test: finding a cow with silver horns. H355.1
• Suitor test: finding a hog with silver bristles. H355.2
• Suitor test: bringing marvelous tree. H355.3
• Suitor test: obtaining flowers. H355.4
• Suitor test: obtaining for bride a necklace like her mother's. H355.5
• Suitor test: to get wedding dress so fine that it will go through ring. H355.6
• Other suitor tests. H359
• Suitor test: building causeway. (Cf. H1131.) H359.1
• Suitor test: clearing land. H359.2
• Bride test. H360
• Ring (jewel) bride test. Hero will marry girl possessing certain ring or jewel. H361
• Bride chosen from girls assembled at feast. (Cf. H311.) H362
• Deceased wife marriage test. Man will marry woman meeting certain specifications prescribed by his deceased wife. H363
• Bride test: wearing deceased wife's clothes. H363.1
• Bride test: wearing deceased wife's ring. H363.2
• Bride test: size of feet. H365
• Bride test: performance of tasks. H373
• Bride contest: game. H375
• Game of hide and seek with seven princesses to determine which is to be hero's wife. H375.1
• Man marries girl bringing his clothes soonest. H375.2
• Bride test: procuring food plants in shortest time. H375.3
• Bride test: thrift. H381
• Bride test: making dress from wasted flax. H381.1
• Bride test: thrifty cutting of cheese. Three girls tested. First eats rind and all, second cuts away good cheese, third cuts away just enough. H381.2
• Bride test: thrifty peeling of apple. H381.2.1
• Bride test: thrifty scraping of bread tray. H381.2.2
• Bride test: industry. H382
• Bride test: key in flax reveals laziness. Suitor hides key in flax on spinning wheel. Finds it there next day. H382.1
• Bride test: domestic skill. H383
• Bride test: bread-making. H383.1
• Bride test: bread-making – dough under fingernails. After three weeks the girl still has dough under her fingernails. H383.1.1
• Bride test: cooking griddle cakes. H383.1.2
• Bride test: cloth-working. H383.2
• Bride test: spinning – girl cannot use spinning-wheel. H383.2.1
• Bride test: weaving magic cloth, sewing magic shirt. H383.2.2
• Bride test: sewing a shirt for bridegroom's father. H383.2.3
• Bride test: skillful sweeping. H383.3
• Bride test: cooking. H383.4
• Bride test: ale brewing. H383.4.1
• Bride test: cutting up a monster fish with scaly hide. H383.5
• Bride test: kindness. H384
• Suitor chooses kindly girl. H384.0.1
• Bride test: kindness – father-in-law disguised as beggar. H384.1
• Wealthy (handsome) suitor disguised as beggar to test bride's kindness. H384.1.1
• Prince disguised as a madman to test bride's character. H384.1.2
• Bride test: greediness. H385
• Bride test: obedience. H386
• Bride test: to allow oneself to be beaten with shoe. H386.1
• Bride test: constancy. H387
• Bride's constancy tested by seven year's mourning over supposed dead lover. H387.1
• Bride test: wisdom (cleverness). H388
• Chastity test. Various means are employed to test a woman's (or man's) chastity. H400
• Chastity test by magic objects or ordeals. H410
• Magic object points out unchaste woman. H411
• Magic stone as chastity test. At foot of bed: cannot be stepped on by unchaste woman. (Cf. D931.) H411.1
• Stone breaks when unchaste woman looks at it. H411.1.1
• Magic tree as chastity test. Cannot be climbed by unchaste woman. (Cf. D950.) H411.2
• Magic plant as chastity test. (Cf. D965.) H411.3
• Magic drinking horn (cup) as chastity test. (Cf. D1171.6.) Unchaste woman cannot drink from cup. H411.4
• Drinking bitter water as chastity test. Water will poison the unchaste. H411.4.1
• Magic cup as chastity test: sticks to hands of adulterer. H411.4.2
• Magic pin as chastity test. If it floats, woman is chaste. (Cf. D1182.) H411.5
• Magic chair as chastity test. Unchaste woman cannot sit in it till bidden. (Cf. D1151.2.) H411.6
• Mantle as chastity test. Will not fit unchaste woman. (Cf. D1053.) H411.7
• Magic bridge as chastity test. Cannot be crossed by unchaste. (Cf. D1258.) H411.8
• Magic statue as chastity test. Moves eyes in presence of unchaste woman. (Cf. D1268.) H411.9
• Magic idol as chastity test. Turns black in presence of unchaste woman. Lights up in presence of chaste woman. H411.9.1
• Magic bed and pillows as chastity test. Speak and reveal unchastity. (Cf. D1154.1.) H411.10
• Magic spring as chastity test. Wells up if girl is not a virgin. (Cf. D927.) H411.11
• Unchaste woman dips arm into the water: skin boiled away. H411.11.1
• Fountains as chastity tests. One fountain of clear water, other muddy. H411.11.2
• Magic harp as chastity test. Plays out of tune at approach of unchaste girl. (Cf. D1231.) H411.12
• Magic lamp as chastity test. Only virgin can light it. (Cf. D1162.1.) H411.13
• Apple as chastity test. Fades if owner is not virgin. (Cf. D981.1.) H411.14
• Magic mirror as chastity index. (Cf. D1163.) H411.15
• Catching salmon as proof of virginity. H411.16
• Swan as chastity test. H411.17
• Dust of Tabernacle as chastity test. (Cf. D935.) H411.18
• Chastity tested by ordeal. H412
• Chastity ordeal: passing under magic rod. Unchaste woman bears twins. (Cf. D1254.2.) H412.1
• Chastity ordeal: holding shaven and greased tail of bull. H412.2
• Chastity ordeal: feather over door; if girl who enters blushes she is not a virgin. H412.3
• Chastity ordeal: passing through fire. H412.4
• Chastity ordeal: holding hot iron. H412.4.1
• Chastity ordeal: oath on boiling oil. H412.4.2
• Chastity ordeal: poisonous snake around girl's neck. H412.5
• Chastity ordeal: drawing lover out of wall with single thread rope. H412.6
• Chastity ordeal: jumping. H412.7
• Chastity ordeal: jumping over magic thread. H412.7.1
• Chastity ordeal: jumping over pit. H412.7.2
• Special powers of chaste woman. H413
• Special power of chaste woman: blowing out candle with one puff and relighting it with another. H413.1
• Special power of chaste woman: making ball of water. H413.2
• Special power of chaste woman: carrying water in sieve. H413.3
• Special power of chaste woman: raising fallen elephant. H413.4
• Chastity test: throwing certain number on dice. H413.5
• If princess is chaste her weight will be only that of five flowers; if not, normal. H413.6
• Tests for true lover. H421
• Valley from which no false lover can escape until it has been entered by a true lover. H421.1
• Tests for true husbands. H422
• Crown exposes infidelity of husbands. H422.1
• Tests for cuckolds. H425
• Cuckold's knife cannot carve boar's head. H425.1
• Horns grow on cuckold. H425.2
• Chastity tests of holy men and monks. H426
• Chastity index. Objects indicate faithfulness or unfaithfulness of separated lovers (husband or wife). H430
• Clothing (cloth) as chastity index. H431
• Shirt as chastity index. Remains white as long as woman (man) is true (Cf. D1056.) H431.1
• Handkerchief as chastity index. Will not soil as long as woman (man) is true. H431.2
• Veil as chastity index. Flowers on veil fade on head of unchaste. H431.3
• Flower as chastity index. (Cf. D975.) H432
• Rose as chastity index. Fading rose indicates unfaithfulness. (Cf. D975.2.) H432.1
• Three roses fall as sign of unfaithfulness. H432.1.1
• Lily as chastity index. H432.2
• Lotus flower as chastity index. (Cf. D975.1.) H432.3
• Blooming staff as chastity index. H432.4
• Ornament as chastity index. H433
• Ring as chastity index. Indicates faithfulness by color. (Cf. D1076.) H433.1
• Fruit as chastity index. H434
• Apple as chastity index: shines as long as woman is chaste. (Cf. D981.1.) H434.1
• Weapon as chastity index. H435
• Sword as chastity index: will not spot while woman is faithful. (Cf. D1081.) H435.1
• Chastity index – miscellaneous. H439
• Picture as chastity index: indicates by its color. (Cf. D1266.2.) H439.1