Task: making boat from splinters of a spindle and shuttle

Motif

Task: making boat from splinters of a spindle and shuttle.

Tests. · Tests of prowess: tasks. · Nature of tasks. · Impossible or absurd tasks. · Tasks contrary to laws of nature. · view the constellation · filed as H1022.7

Filed across the traditions

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

Within the index

Filed under Task: construction from impossible amount of material.

Filed beside it

Task: weaving cloth from two threads Task: making many shirts (clothing an army) from one hank of flax (wool) Task: making sails for ship from one bundle of linen; countertask: making spindle and loom from one stick of wood. (Cf. H951.) Task: making shirt from piece of linen three inches square Task: feeding army from one measure of meal Task: making many kinds of food from one small bird Task: brewing impossible amount of ale from one grain of corn Task: bringing quantity of mosquito bones within month; countertask: furnishing scales with wind as beams and heat as pans. (Cf. H951.)

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 an invisible knot with an egg Task: splitting a hair with a blunt knife

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