Task: brewing impossible amount of ale from one grain of corn — Mythoi

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Task: brewing impossible amount of ale from one grain of corn.

Tests. · Tests of prowess: tasks. · Nature of tasks. · Impossible or absurd tasks. · Tasks contrary to laws of nature. · view the constellation · filed as H1022.8

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth Cross.

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: making boat from splinters of a spindle and shuttle Task: bringing quantity of mosquito bones within month; countertask: furnishing scales with wind as beams and heat as pans. (Cf. H951.)

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