The constellation
H1023 Tasks contrary to the nature of objects
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- Task: hatching boiled eggs · H1023.1 entry
- Task: carrying water in a sieve · H1023.2 entry
- Task: bringing berries (fruit, roses) in winter · H1023.3 entry
- Task: straightening a curly hair · H1023.4 entry
- Task: pumping out a leaky ship · H1023.5 entry
- Task: washing black wool (cloth, cattle) white · H1023.6 entry
- Task: sewing together a broken mill-stone · H1023.7 entry
- Task: fixing the two pieces of a broken sword together · H1023.8 entry
- Task: mending a broken jug · H1023.9 entry
- Task: skinning a stone · H1023.10 entry
- Task: putting a large squash whole into a narrow-necked jar · H1023.11 entry
- Task: catching a noise · H1023.12 entry
- Task: catching a man's broken wind · H1023.13 entry
- Task: splitting a hair with a blunt knife · H1023.14 entry
- Task: turning fruit into gold · H1023.15 entry
- Task: making sun and moon shine in the north · H1023.16 entry
- Task: sowing rye and bringing crop next morning. (Cf. H1023.1.2.) · H1023.17 entry
- Task: putting peaches back on tree · H1023.18 entry
- Task: bringing bundle of faggots without rope to tie them. Helpful snake coils himself about them · H1023.19 entry
- Task: fetching water from the well in a bucket without the use of rope to draw it with · H1023.20 entry
- Task: gathering a necklace of rubies from the sea · H1023.21 entry
- Task: catching a sunbeam · H1023.22 entry
- Task: tying the sun with a stone chain · H1023.23 entry
- Suitor asked to bathe in great cauldron of boiling water without making water lukewarm · H1023.24 entry