μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 3references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

  • general *Type 875
  • general BP II 349ff.
  • general *De Vries FFC LXXIII 241.
Within the index

Filed under Tasks contrary to the nature of objects.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Task: hatching boiled eggs; countertask: sowing cooked seeds and harvesting the crop. (Cf. H951, H952.)Task: hatching eggs immediately; countertask: sowing seeds and bringing in crop next morning. (Cf. H951, H952.)
Filed beside it
Task: carrying water in a sieveTask: bringing berries (fruit, roses) in winterTask: straightening a curly hairTask: pumping out a leaky shipTask: washing black wool (cloth, cattle) whiteTask: sewing together a broken mill-stoneTask: fixing the two pieces of a broken sword togetherTask: mending a broken jugTask: skinning a stoneTask: putting a large squash whole into a narrow-necked jarTask: catching a noiseTask: catching a man's broken windTask: splitting a hair with a blunt knifeTask: turning fruit into goldTask: making sun and moon shine in the northTask: sowing rye and bringing crop next morning. (Cf. H1023.1.2.)
Carried in tale types

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