Task: coming neither on horse nor on foot. (Walks on a stick horse.) — Mythoi

Motif

Task: coming neither on horse nor on foot. (Walks on a stick horse.)

Tests. · Tests of prowess: tasks. · Nature of tasks. · Paradoxical tasks. · Paradoxical tasks. · view the constellation · filed as H1053.5

Cited in the index

general De Vries FFC LXXIII 190.

Within the index

Filed under Task: coming neither on horse nor on foot (riding nor walking).

Filed beside it

Task: coming neither on horse nor on foot. (Comes on another animal.) Task: coming neither on horse nor on foot. (Comes sitting on animal but with feet reaching ground.) Task: coming neither on horse nor on foot. (Comes with one leg on animal's back, one on ground.) Task: coming neither on horse nor on foot. (Coming drawn by an animal on net, trough, or sledge.) Task: coming neither on horse nor on foot. (Crawls on all fours.)

Carried in tale types

The Clever Farmgirl [J1111 · ATU 875 1188 recorded variants
The King and the Farmer's Son · ATU 921 21 recorded variants

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