The constellation
H1110 Tedious tasks
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
● motif
● tale type
● on the shelf
● attested
The same sky, in words
beneath it
- Task: carrying hundreds of sheep across stream one at a time · H1111 entry
- Task: herding rabbits · H1112 entry
- Task: bailing out a pond · H1113 entry
- Task: climbing glass mountain · H1114 entry
- Task: chopping down large tree with blunt (fragile) implements. (Cf. H1095.) · H1115 entry
- Task: breaking huge rock to pieces · H1116 entry
- Task: bringing as many horses as there are days in the year. (Brings one for each week-day.) · H1117 entry
- Task: counting hairs in pig's back (feathers in bird) · H1118 entry
- Task: picking all nuts from tall tree. (Performed by grateful squirrel.) · H1121 entry
- Task: preparing large quantity of grain · H1122 entry
- Task: feeding ravenous beast to satiation · H1123 entry
- Task: gathering all stones from brook or field · H1124 entry
- Task: traveling till iron shoes are worn out · H1125 entry
- Task: carrying off huge quantity of money · H1127 entry
- Task: keeping up a certain work all night · H1128 entry
- Other tedious tasks · H1129 entry