μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Task: construction from impossible kind of material.

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

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Filed under Tasks contrary to laws of nature.

11 finer motifs beneath 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: 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
Filed beside it
Task: construction from impossible amount of material Tasks contrary to the nature of objects Tasks contrary to the nature of animals Task: obtaining fat (bacon) from swine that never was farrowed Task: changing the course of time
Carried in tale types

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