The constellation
H1180 Miscellaneous 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
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● attested
The same sky, in words
beneath it
- Task: raising a buried treasure · H1181 entry
- Task: letting king hear something that neither he nor his subjects have ever heard. (Reads a letter from a foreign king demanding a loan.) · H1182 entry
- Task: carrying a wagon axle which has broken a wheel · H1183 entry
- Task: cutting down tree without scratching for stinging insects. (Scratches surreptitiously while gesticulating.) · H1184 entry
- Task: preparing the food "Oh my". (Needle put in food which causes eater to say "Oh my!") · H1185 entry
- Task: making pigs dance · H1186 entry
- Task left by departing husband for virgin wife to accomplish: have a son whose real mother she is and whose real father he is. She accomplishes this by disguising as a girl · H1187 entry
- Task: plowing field of vipers. (Puts on iron boots.) · H1188 entry
- Task: blinding a witch · H1191 entry
- Task: combing hair of fairies · H1192 entry
- Task: causing dry spring to flow again · H1193 entry
- Task: making person laugh · H1194 entry
- Task: having a shirt made by a woman free from trouble and worry · H1195 entry
- Task: freeing king from clutches of magic doll. Will marry rescuer if a girl · H1196 entry
- Task: crossing weed-filled stream. Hero spreads cloth on weeds and floats across · H1197 entry
- Task: picking ruby out of a tray filled with identical rubies · H1198 entry
- Other tasks · H1199 entry