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Motifs — first 20 of 72
- Tasks assigned suitors. Bride as prize for accomplishment. (For nature of tasks see H1000ff.) H335
- Devil as suitor assigned tasks. H335.0.3
- Suitors assigned quests. H336
- Riddle assigned defendant in action. If he solves it he wins suit. H542.1
- Task assigned the Gods. H902
- Tasks assigned at suggestion of jealous rivals. H911
- Task (quest) assigned at suggestion of jealous co-wife. H911.1
- Tasks assigned at suggestion of jealous brothers (sisters). H912
- Tasks assigned by jealous parent. H913
- Tasks assigned by jealous mother. H913.1
- Task assigned at suggestion of jealous mother (of prospective bride). H913.1.1
- Tasks assigned at suggestion of jealous father. H913.2
- Task assigned at suggestion of jealous father (of prospective bride). H913.2.1
- Tasks assigned because of mother's foolish boasting. The mother foolishly boasts to the king that the daughter can perform an impossible task (often spinning). H914
- Tasks assigned because of girl's (boy's) own foolish boast. H915
- Tasks assigned because of man's boast. H915.1
- Tasks assigned at suggestion of wife and paramour. H916.3
- Tasks assigned at own unwitting suggestion. Jason thus sent for the Golden Fleece. H917
- Tasks assigned at suggestion contained in letter borne by the victim. H918
- Tasks assigned at suggestion of treacherous servants. H919.1