μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
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.

  • SwissJegerlehner Oberwallis 314 No. 113, 328 No. 10.
  • general Type 480
  • general *Roberts 165
  • general *Fb "får" I 406b, "hvid" I 700b, "skjorte" III 268a, "sort" III 467b
Within the index

Filed under Tasks contrary to the nature of objects.

1 finer motif beneath it
Task: washing large heavy quilt covered with ghi and oil without aid of soap or anything
Filed beside it
Task: hatching boiled eggsTask: carrying water in a sieveTask: bringing berries (fruit, roses) in winterTask: straightening a curly hairTask: pumping out a leaky shipTask: 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
Black sheep turn white. (Cf. H1023.6.)
Carried in tale types

wander