Task: hatching boiled eggs; countertask: sowing cooked seeds and harvesting the crop. (Cf. H951, H952.)

Motif

Task: hatching boiled eggs; countertask: sowing cooked seeds and harvesting the crop. (Cf. H951, H952.)

Tests. · Tests of prowess: tasks. · Nature of tasks. · Impossible or absurd tasks. · Tasks contrary to laws of nature. · view the constellation · filed as H1023.1.1

Cited in the index

general *Types 821B, 875
general *De Vries FFC LXXIII 242
general *BP II 368 n. 1.

Within the index

Filed under Task: hatching boiled eggs.

Filed beside it

Task: hatching eggs immediately; countertask: sowing seeds and bringing in crop next morning. (Cf. H951, H952.)

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Countertasks. When a task is assigned, the hero agrees to perform it as soon as the assigner performs a certain other task. (Cf. H691.2.1, H1021.1.1, H1021.3, H1021.6.1, H1021.6.2, H1022.2.1, H1022.3, H1022.9, H1023.1.1, H1023.1.2, H1023.2.2.1, H1023.9.1, H1023.10.1, H1142.3, H1146.) Reductio ad absurdum of task. When an impossible task is given, the hero responds with a countertask so absurd as to show the manifest absurdity of the original task. (Cf. H1023.3.1, H1024.1.1.1.)

Carried in tale types

The Clever Farmgirl [J1111 · ATU 875 23166 recorded variants
The Case of the Boiled Eggs (previously The Daughter of the King and the Son of the Peasant) · ATU 920A 1 recorded variant

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