Task: making a bull bear a calf

Motif

Task: making a bull bear a calf.

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

Cited in the index

general De Vries FFC LXXIII 43ff., 265.

Within the index

Filed under Task: milking a bull.

1 finer motif beneath it

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

Carried in tale types

The Clever Farmgirl [J1111 · ATU 875 1188 recorded variants

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