Task: sewing a shirt from flower petals

Motif

Task: sewing a shirt from flower petals.

Tests. · Tests of prowess: tasks. · Nature of tasks. · Impossible or absurd tasks. · Tasks contrary to laws of nature. · view the constellation · filed as H1021.9.1

Filed across the traditions

German Grimm No. 49. → on our shelf: Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 49

Within the index

Filed under Task: sewing a shirt of stone.

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

Tabu: speaking during certain time Transformation through thoughtless wish of parent Daily transformation Person restored to human form retains certain animal features Disenchantment by maintaining silence for a year or more Disenchantment by physical contact Witch transforms person to animal. (Cf. D100.) Quest for lost brother(s)

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