Task: weaving a silk shirt from hair. (Cf. H1022.2.2.)

Motif

Task: weaving a silk shirt from hair. (Cf. H1022.2.2.)

Tests. · Tests of prowess: tasks. · Nature of tasks. · Impossible or absurd tasks. · Tasks contrary to laws of nature. · view the constellation · filed as H1021.6

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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.

general De Vries FFC LXXIII 233.

Within the index

Filed under Task: construction from impossible kind of material.

1 finer motif beneath it

Task: weaving a silk shirt from hair; countertask: making a loom from shavings. (Cf. H951.)

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: making an invisible knot with an egg 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

Task: weaving a shirt from a piece of thread; countertask: making a loom from a rod

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