Task: making a rope of sand

Motif

Task: making a rope of sand.

Tests. · Tests of prowess: tasks. · Nature of tasks. · Impossible or absurd tasks. · Tasks contrary to laws of nature. · view the constellation · filed as H1021.1

Cited in the index

general *Type 1174
general *De Vries FFC LXXIII 154, 155 n. 1
general BP III 16
general *Fb "reb" III 25b
general Hdwb. d. Märchens I 431b n. 45
general Chauvin VI 40 No. 207 n. 2. Icelandic: Boberg.

Within the index

Filed under Task: construction from impossible kind of material.

1 finer motif beneath it

Task: making a rope of sand; countertask: first showing the pattern. (Cf. H951.)

Filed beside it

Task: making a rope of chaff Task: making ship of stone Task: making a knot of spilled brandy Task: making an invisible knot with an egg Task: weaving a silk shirt from hair. (Cf. H1022.2.2.) Task: taking a stick from the body. (Fingernail.) Task: spinning gold Task: sewing a shirt of stone Task: brewing ale from sweet milk Task: making a peacock of silk

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Woman tries to climb rope of excrement and urine. (Cf. H1021.1.) Punishment: binding together sand and string. (Cf. H1021.1.)

Carried in tale types

The Clever Farmgirl [J1111 · ATU 875 1188 recorded variants
Making a Rope of Sand · ATU 1174 1 recorded variant
Descent from Sky on Rope of Sand (Chaff) · ATU 1889E 1 recorded variant

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