Task: milking a bull

Motif

Task: milking a bull.

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

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Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

India*Thompson-Balys.
general De Vries FFC LXXIII 43ff.
general Fansler MAFLS XII 63

Within the index

Filed under Tasks contrary to the nature of animals.

1 finer motif beneath it

Task: making a bull bear a calf

Filed beside it

Task: placing frogs in a tree Task: chasing a hare into every trap in a high tree Task: teaching an ass to read Task: sowing dragon's teeth Task: procuring bird out of season Task: teaching animal to speak Task: spinning wool still on goat's back

Carried in tale types

The Clever Farmgirl [J1111 · ATU 8751188 recorded variants
The Clever Girl and the King · ATU 875B4 recorded variants

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