Task: making an invisible knot with an egg

Motif

Task: making an invisible knot with an egg.

Tests. · Tests of prowess: tasks. · Nature of tasks. · Impossible or absurd tasks. · Tasks contrary to laws of nature. · view the constellation · filed as H1021.5

Filed across the traditions

Finnish Kalevala rune 8. → on our shelf: The Kalevala, Rune VIII

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 ship of stone Task: making a knot of spilled brandy 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

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

Magic song Magic song heals wound. (Cf. D1275.) Magic power at cross-roads Flow of blood magically stopped. (Cf. D1504.) Task: making boat from splinters of a spindle and shuttle Task: splitting a hair with a blunt knife

ask the rhapsode about this motif · search the shelf for “invisible” · wander