μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Task: making a bull bear a calf. Reductio ad absurdum: have a man prepare for childbirth. (Cf. H952.)

Tests. · Tests of prowess: tasks. · Nature of tasks. · Impossible or absurd tasks. · Tasks contrary to laws of nature. · view the constellation · filed as H1024.1.1.1

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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  • India*Thompson-Balys.
  • general De Vries FFC LXXIII 265
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Filed under Task: making a bull bear a calf.

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Reductio ad absurdum of task. When an impossible task is given, the hero responds with a countertask so absurd as to show the manifest absurdity of the original task. (Cf. H1023.3.1, H1024.1.1.1.)
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