Task: dipping water without wetting dipper

Motif

Task: dipping water without wetting dipper.

Tests. · Tests of prowess: tasks. · Nature of tasks. · Impossible or absurd tasks. · Other impossible tasks. · view the constellation · filed as H1046.1

Filed across the traditions

India Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Task: carrying woman across river without wetting feet. Hero fails.

Filed beside it

Task: cutting and bringing leaves from thorn thicket without tearing them at all Task: drinking beer without touching pot

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