Task: bringing berries (fruit, roses) in winter

Motif

Task: bringing berries (fruit, roses) in winter.

Tests. · Tests of prowess: tasks. · Nature of tasks. · Impossible or absurd tasks. · Tasks contrary to laws of nature. · view the constellation · filed as H1023.3

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Scholars’ trail — 9references

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.

Irish myth*Cross
IndiaThompson-Balys
JapaneseIkeda
Eskimo (Greenland)Rink 159
N. Am. Indian*Thompson Tales 313 n. 126c.
general *Type 403B, 480, *Roberts 134
general BP I 99ff., II 232
general *Saintyves Perrault 20
general De Vries FFC LXXIII 269 n. 2

Within the index

Filed under Tasks contrary to the nature of objects.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Task: bringing berries in winter. Reductio ad absurdum: father is sick from snake-bite (impossible in winter). (Cf. H952.)Task: making withered flowers green

Filed beside it

Task: hatching boiled eggs Task: carrying water in a sieve Task: straightening a curly hair Task: pumping out a leaky ship Task: washing black wool (cloth, cattle) white Task: sewing together a broken mill-stone Task: fixing the two pieces of a broken sword together Task: mending a broken jug Task: skinning a stone Task: putting a large squash whole into a narrow-necked jar Task: catching a noise Task: catching a man's broken wind Task: splitting a hair with a blunt knife Task: turning fruit into gold Task: making sun and moon shine in the north Task: sowing rye and bringing crop next morning. (Cf. H1023.1.2.)

Carried in tale types

The Black and the White Bride · ATU 4034 recorded variants
The Man Persecuted Because of his Beautiful Wife · ATU 4652 recorded variants
The Last Request · ATU 927C1 recorded variant

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