μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

  • general De Vries FFC LXXIII 198
  • general BP II 362.
Within the index

Filed under Paradoxical tasks.

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Task: coming neither on nor off the road. (Comes in the rut or the ditch at side of the road.)Task: coming neither on horse nor on foot (riding nor walking)Task: coming neither naked nor cladTask: coming neither barefoot nor shod. (Comes with one shoe on, one off; or in soleless shoes.)Task: coming neither with nor without a present (game). (Lets bird fly as the reaches it toward king.)Task: coming neither by day nor by night. (Comes at twilight.)Task: standing between summer and winter. (Stands between wagon and sleigh.)Task: coming neither with nor without a companion. (Comes with an animal.)Task: coming neither washed nor unwashed. (Comes partly washed.)Task: coming neither hungry nor satiated. (Eats a thin soup, a leaf, a single grain, or the like.)Task: coming laughing and crying at once. (Rubs eyes with a twig to simulate crying.)Task: bringing best friend, worst enemy, best servant, greatest pleasure-giver. (Brings dog, wife, ass, little son respectively.)Task: sweep the floor and do not sweep itTask: light fire but do not light itTask: making bed but do not make itTask: eat bread but bring it back whole. (Center of loaf eaten.)
Travels with
Devil is to get soul of man whether he is buried "inside or outside of church, above or below ground." The man has himself buried in the wall of the church, partly in and partly out of the ground. (Cf. H1052.)
Carried in tale types

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