Tasks requiring miraculous speed — Mythoi

Motif

Tasks requiring miraculous speed.

Tests. · Tests of prowess: tasks. · Nature of tasks. · Tasks requiring miraculous speed. · view the constellation · filed as H1090

Filed across the traditions

Missouri French Carrière
India Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

16 finer motifs beneath it

Task: sorting a large amount of grain (beads, beans, peas) in one night Task: spinning impossible amount in one night. (Cf. H1022.2.) Task: embroidering blanket in one day. (Help from animals.) (Cf. B571.) Task: unraveling in short time Task: felling a forest in one night. (Cf. H1115.) Task: washing enormous number of clothes (and other articles) in short time Task: draining sea-covered land in one night Task: removing mountain (mound) in one night Task: cleaning Augean stable. Stable has not been cleaned in years. Must be done in one night. River turned through it Task: setting out vineyard in one night Task: building castle in one night Task: digging a pond quickly Task: shearing flock of sheep in one day Task: bringing documents from distant city in one day Task: paving great road in short time Other tasks requiring miraculous speed

Carried in tale types

The Man Persecuted Because of his Beautiful Wife · ATU 465 2 recorded variants

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