^12 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. I23 



H335.9. Suitor task: to bring back food as a marriage present. No. 493, p. 283/?. 



H373. Bride test: performance of tasks. No. 22, pp. 235-236. 



H383.4. Test of skill in preparing food. No. 443, p. 249. 



H384.1.1. Wealthy suitor disguised as beggar to test bride's kindness. No. 22, p. 235L. 



H460. Wife test. 



H476. Husband tests false wife by sleeping on her hair. Had always done so with true 



bride. No. 76, p. 268L. 

 H481.2. Infant picks out his unknown mother. No. 443, p. 250L. 



H500-H899. tests of cleverness 



H521.1. Test: guessing unknown propounder's age. No. 13, p. 22^R. 

 H588.0.1. Father-in-law gives daughter-in-law enigmatic permission to go home. No. 

 112, p. 2317?. 



H900-H1199. TESTS of prowess: tasks 

 H900-H999. assignment and performance of tasks 



H901. Tasks imposed. No. 502, p. 229. 



H901.2. Bird must bring orphan to king or bird will be killed. No. 324, pp. 247-248. 



H911.1. Task (quest) assigned at suggestion of jealous co-wife. No. 76, pp. 266-267. 



H931. Tasks assigned in order to get rid of hero. No. 76, p. 267L. 



H939.5. Tasks assigned by stepmother. No. 76, p. 267L. 



H951. Countertasks. No. 112, p. 232. 



H952. Reductio ad absurdum of task. No. 112, p. 232. 



H963. Tasks performed by means of secrets overheard from tree. No. 394, pp. 277-278. 



H981. Tasks performed with help of brother. No. 22, p. 236L. 



HIOIO. Impossible tas\s. No. 413, p. 279. 



H1023.22. Task: putting peaches back on tree. No. 413, p. 279. 



H1024. 1.1.1. Task: making a bull bear a calf. — Reductio ad absurdum: have a man 

 prepare for childbirth. No. 112, p. 232. 



HI 091. Task: sorting a large amount of grain. No. 76, p. 276L; No. 413, p. 279i?. 



H1149.8. Girl to bring cloth as long as river and raise pig as big as mountain (counter- 

 task: measure river and weigh mountain). No. 112, p. 232L. 



HI 199.16. Task: produce seven pairs of chopsticks in seven plates (a lacquered plate 

 and pair of chopsticks — seven coats of lacquer). No. 443, p. 249. 



H1200-H1399. tests of prowess: quests 



H1200-H1249. attendant circumstances of quests 



H1235. Hero sent from one helper to another. No. 28, p. 240L; No. 412, pp. 278-279. 

 H1235.1. Helpers on quest demand pay for advice. No. 494, p. 251/?. 



H1250-H1399. nature of quests 



H1256. Journey to other world to obtain a wife. No. 28, p. 240. 



H1260. Quest to the upper world. No. 509, pp. 284-285. 



H1290. Quests to the other world — miscellaneous motifs. 



H1291. Questions asked on way to other world. No. 26, pp. 237-238. 



