Task: filling a sack full of lies (truths)

Motif

Task: filling a sack full of lies (truths).

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Filed across the traditions

Russian Andrejev No. 1630*.
general *Type 570
general *BP III 273
general *Fb "sandhed", "pose"

Within the index

Filed under Other impossible tasks.

1 finer motif beneath it

Task: going to get nothing and bringing it back

Filed beside it

Task: showing picture of a voice Task: eating the moon Task: building castle suspended between heaven and earth Task: getting fruit from top of tall tree without cutting tree. (Cuts roots of tree.) Task: bringing a plantain leaf from the garden without tearing it Task: recalling a dream someone else has had Task: carrying woman across river without wetting feet. Hero fails Task: bringing melon 12 cubits long with seed 13 cubits long Other impossible tasks – miscellaneous

Carried in tale types

The Rabbit-herd · ATU 570 3 recorded variants

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