Hero sets wife to task of filling water-bottle with spout turned downward

Motif

Hero sets wife to task of filling water-bottle with spout turned downward.

Tests. · Tests of prowess: tasks. · Nature of tasks. · Impossible or absurd tasks. · Tasks contrary to laws of nature. · view the constellation · filed as H1023.2.2

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

HawaiiBeckwith Myth 417.

Within the index

Filed under Task: carrying water in a sieve.

Filed beside it

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