Task: carrying water in sieve; sieve filled with moss

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Task: carrying water in sieve; sieve filled with moss.

Tests. · Tests of prowess: tasks. · Nature of tasks. · Impossible or absurd tasks. · Tasks contrary to laws of nature. · view the constellation · filed as H1023.2.0.1

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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.

EnglandBaughman
American Negro (Georgia)Harris Remus 107 No. 22.
general *BP I 5, 215, III 477 n. 1

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