Task: straightening a curly hair

Motif

Task: straightening a curly hair.

Tests. · Tests of prowess: tasks. · Nature of tasks. · Impossible or absurd tasks. · Tasks contrary to laws of nature. · view the constellation · filed as H1023.4

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Scholars’ trail — 5references

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. 636
SwissJegerlehner Oberwallis 314 No. 113, 329 No. 45
India*Thompson-Balys.
general Type 1175
general BP III 15

Within the index

Filed under Tasks contrary to the nature of objects.

1 finer motif beneath it

Task: making a dog's tail straight

Filed beside it

Task: hatching boiled eggs Task: carrying water in a sieve Task: bringing berries (fruit, roses) in winter 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

Straightening Curly Hair · ATU 11751 recorded variant

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