Task: making ship of stone

Motif

Task: making ship of stone.

Tests. · Tests of prowess: tasks. · Nature of tasks. · Impossible or absurd tasks. · Tasks contrary to laws of nature. · view the constellation · filed as H1021.3

Filed across the traditions

Indonesia De Vries's list No. 235.
general De Vries FFC LXXIII 150ff.

Within the index

Filed under Task: construction from impossible kind of material.

Filed beside it

Task: making a rope of sand Task: making a rope of chaff 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.)

Countertasks. When a task is assigned, the hero agrees to perform it as soon as the assigner performs a certain other task. (Cf. H691.2.1, H1021.1.1, H1021.3, H1021.6.1, H1021.6.2, H1022.2.1, H1022.3, H1022.9, H1023.1.1, H1023.1.2, H1023.2.2.1, H1023.9.1, H1023.10.1, H1142.3, H1146.) Attempts to make canoe of sand. (Cf. H1021.3.)

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