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Motifs
- Youths grind in mill of underworldlings. F106
- Youths tutored by Vulcan, smith of Hell. F107
- Devil appears among youths who jest while they say their evening prayers. G303.6.2.3
- Test of cleverness: uttering three wise words. Youths called on to do so display by their answers extraordinary powers of deduction. H505
- Heads placed on stakes for failure in performance of task. Unsuccessful youths are beheaded and heads exposed. Hero sees them when he sets out to accomplish his task. H901.1
- Wisdom from philosopher: give separate greetings to infants, youths, and old people. J152.5
- King David dances with common youths before the Ark of the Covenant. He humbles self to please God. J914.1
- Youths execute a series of clever thefts. K305.3
- Tale of the cradle. Two youths pass the night with a family where all sleep in a common room, with a cradle at the foot of one of the beds. The moving of the cradle in the night confuses those walking about so that the strangers sleep with the wife and the daughter. K1345
- Disguise by dyeing beard. Youths have been advised never to serve a man with a red beard. The trickster dyes his beard black. K1821.1
- Youths wear false beards (of grass, wool). K1821.4
- Devil takes shape of old woman to punish impious nuns. Introduces them to three youths disguised as girls and brings about nuns' seduction. Nuns are stoned to death. Q220.1.1
- Tribute of youths regularly sent to foreign king. S262.2
- Youths and maidens as yearly tribute to monsters (Fomorians). S262.2.1
- Saint causes two youths to be fed with the best food, says one is doomed to go to hell, the other will practice austerity in his old age. V73.3
- Wager with overdressed youths that servant can carry a large bucket of water upstairs. They follow and are soaked when the servant purposely spills the dirty water. X32
- Twelve months as youths seated about fire. Z122.3