Task: putting peaches back on tree — Mythoi

Motif

Task: putting peaches back on tree.

Tests. · Tests of prowess: tasks. · Nature of tasks. · Impossible or absurd tasks. · Tasks contrary to laws of nature. · view the constellation · filed as H1023.18

Filed across the traditions

Chinese Graham.

Within the index

Filed under Tasks contrary to the nature of objects.

Filed beside it

Task: hatching boiled eggs Task: carrying water in a sieve Task: bringing berries (fruit, roses) in winter Task: straightening a curly hair Task: pumping out a leaky ship Task: washing black wool (cloth, cattle) white Task: sewing together a broken mill-stone Task: fixing the two pieces of a broken sword together Task: mending a broken jug Task: skinning a stone Task: putting a large squash whole into a narrow-necked jar Task: catching a noise Task: catching a man's broken wind Task: splitting a hair with a blunt knife Task: turning fruit into gold Task: making sun and moon shine in the north

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