μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Task: standing neither inside nor outside of gate. (Forefeet of horse inside, hind feet outside.)

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

Filed under Paradoxical tasks.

Filed beside it
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 clad Task: 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 it Task: light fire but do not light it Task: making bed but do not make it Task: eat bread but bring it back whole. (Center of loaf eaten.)
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
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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