Task: weaving a shirt from a piece of thread; countertask: making a loom from a rod.
Tests. · Tests of prowess: tasks. · Nature of tasks. · Impossible or absurd tasks. · Tasks contrary to laws of nature. · view the constellation · filed as H1022.2.2
Motif
Filed across the traditions
- Cheremis Sebeok-Nyerges.
Within the index
Filed under Task: making many shirts (clothing an army) from one hank of flax (wool).
Filed beside it
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
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