μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 7references

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.

  • LithuanianBalys Legends No. 354
  • IndiaThompson-Balys
  • JapaneseIkeda
  • general *Types 480, 1180, Roberts 138, 165
  • general *BP I 5, 215, III 16, 477 n. 1
  • general *Fb "såld" III 750a
  • general S. Am. Indian (Ackawoi): Alexander Lat. Am. 269.
Within the index

Filed under Tasks contrary to the nature of objects.

7 finer motifs beneath it
Task: carrying water in sieve; sieve filled with mossTask: carrying water in sieve; pious child able to do soTask: carrying water in leaky vesselHero sets wife to task of filling water-bottle with spout turned downwardImpossible task: filling a grain-bin through the hole in the bottomTask: filling a bottomless water tubeTask: filling pots having subterranean outlets
Filed beside it
Task: hatching boiled eggsTask: bringing berries (fruit, roses) in winterTask: straightening a curly hairTask: pumping out a leaky shipTask: washing black wool (cloth, cattle) whiteTask: sewing together a broken mill-stoneTask: fixing the two pieces of a broken sword togetherTask: mending a broken jugTask: skinning a stoneTask: putting a large squash whole into a narrow-necked jarTask: catching a noiseTask: catching a man's broken windTask: splitting a hair with a blunt knifeTask: turning fruit into goldTask: making sun and moon shine in the northTask: sowing rye and bringing crop next morning. (Cf. H1023.1.2.)
Travels with
Punishment: filling leaky vessels with water from a bottomless jar. (Cf. H1023.2.)
Carried in tale types

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