Task: teaching an ass to read

Motif

Task: teaching an ass to read.

Tests. · Tests of prowess: tasks. · Nature of tasks. · Impossible or absurd tasks. · Tasks contrary to laws of nature. · view the constellation · filed as H1024.4

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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general Anderson FFC XLII 357 n. 1
general cf. Type 1675.

Within the index

Filed under Tasks contrary to the nature of animals.

Filed beside it

Task: milking a bull Task: placing frogs in a tree Task: chasing a hare into every trap in a high tree 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

Teaching the Donkey to Speak · ATU 1750B1 recorded variant

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