Tasks contrary to the nature of animals

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Tasks contrary to the nature of animals.

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

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Filed under Tasks contrary to laws of nature.

8 finer motifs beneath it

Task: milking a bull 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

Filed beside it

Task: construction from impossible kind of material Task: construction from impossible amount of material Tasks contrary to the nature of objects Task: obtaining fat (bacon) from swine that never was farrowed Task: changing the course of time

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