The constellation
H1102 Task: cleaning Augean stable. Stable has not been cleaned in years. Must be done in one night. River turned through it
A constellation is one motif’s neighborhood in the record — the story-shapes filed around it, the tale types that carry it, and the texts where it is witnessed, every line a receipted link. Click a motif to travel. Click a text to read it. The entry · wander
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- Task: cleaning cowshed · H1102.1 entry
- Task: emptying in one day a barn filled with manure · H1102.2 entry
keeps company
- Task: stealing golden apples · H1151.1 entry
- Task: stealing belt from queen · H1151.5 entry
- Task: killing ferocious beast · H1161 entry
- Tasks imposed. A person's prowess is tested by assigning him certain tasks (usually impossible or extremely difficult) to be performed either to escape punishment or to receive a valuable reward · H900 entry
- Wrestling match: Antaeus. Giant invincible in wrestling because with each contact with earth his strength is renewed · K12.3 entry
- Punishment of Prometheus. Chained to a mountain with eagle preying on his vitals, which are restored nightly. (Punishment for theft of fire.) · Q501.4 entry
- Periodic sacrifices to a monster · S262 entry
- Sacrifice of strangers · S265 entry
- Hound of hell. Cerberus (monstrous dog) guards the bridge to the lower world · A673 entry
- Hind with golden horns · B101.4 entry
Thompson cites
- The Library (Bibliotheca) · BOOK II, ch. V