Man in otherworld kindles fire. It burns out repeatedly while he is gathering more wood

Motif

Man in otherworld kindles fire. It burns out repeatedly while he is gathering more wood.

Marvels. · Other world journeys. · Miscellaneous otherworlds. · Otherworld – miscellaneous motifs. · view the constellation · filed as F171.6.5

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

Irish myth*Cross.

Within the index

Filed under Mysterious punishments in otherworld.

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Man in otherworld loaded down with wood. Then more and more put on him People in otherworld pour water into tub full of holes Trying to get a beam through a door crosswise in otherworld People in otherworld with horses both before and behind wagon. They pull against each other People in otherworld thatch house with birds' wings. Thatch blows away while they go for more

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Symbolic interpretation of ineffectual thatching of house and building of fire in otherworld. (Cf. F171.6.5, F171.6.6.)

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