Task: coming "neither in softness nor in hardness." (Comes clad in garments of mountain down.) — Mythoi

Motif

Task: coming "neither in softness nor in hardness." (Comes clad in garments of mountain down.)

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Filed across the traditions

Irish myth *Cross.

Within the index

Filed under Task: coming neither naked nor clad.

Filed beside it

Task: coming neither naked nor clad. (Comes wrapped in net or the like.) Task: coming neither naked nor clad. (Comes clothed in own hair.) Task: coming neither naked nor clad. (Comes with part of body clothed.)

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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