Task: carrying water in sieve; sieve filled with moss

Motif

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

Filed across the traditions

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

Within the index

Filed under Task: carrying water in a sieve.

Filed beside it

Task: carrying water in sieve; pious child able to do so Task: carrying water in leaky vessel Hero sets wife to task of filling water-bottle with spout turned downward Impossible task: filling a grain-bin through the hole in the bottom Task: filling a bottomless water tube Task: filling pots having subterranean outlets

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