Task: carrying water in leaky vessel

Motif

Task: carrying water in leaky vessel.

Tests. · Tests of prowess: tasks. · Nature of tasks. · Impossible or absurd tasks. · Tasks contrary to laws of nature. · view the constellation · filed as H1023.2.1

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Scholars’ trail — 4references

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.

BretonSébillot Incidents s. v. "cruche"
India*Thompson-Balys
Africa (Mpongwe)Nassau 32 No. 4
general (Zulu): Callaway 16, (Basuto): Jacottet 15 No. 10, 202 No. 30, (Kaffir): Theal 15, (Angola): Chatelain 163, 171, 179 No. 21.

Within the index

Filed under Task: carrying water in a sieve.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Task: carrying water in leaky vessel; vessel repaired with clay or gum Task: carrying water in leaky vessel; frog sits in hole

Filed beside it

Task: carrying water in sieve; sieve filled with moss Task: carrying water in sieve; pious child able to do so 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

Travels with

Bottomless tub (vat) holds water through power of saint. (Cf. H1023.2.1.)

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