μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Task: making a rope of chaff.

Tests. · Tests of prowess: tasks. · Nature of tasks. · Impossible or absurd tasks. · Tasks contrary to laws of nature. · view the constellation · filed as H1021.2

Filed across the traditions
  • Breton Sébillot Incidents s. v. "corde"
  • Japanese Ikeda.
Within the index

Filed under Task: construction from impossible kind of material.

Filed beside it
Task: making a rope of sand 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
Carried in tale types

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