μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Task: sorting grains: performed by helpful ants.

Tests. · Tests of prowess: tasks. · Nature of tasks. · Tasks requiring miraculous speed. · view the constellation · filed as H1091.1

Filed across the traditions
  • French Canadian Sister Marie Ursule
  • Spanish Espinosa Jr. No. 130
  • Italian Basile Pentamerone V No. 4
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Indonesia Dixon 217
  • Japanese Ikeda
  • Korean Zong in-Sob 17.
  • general Clouston Tales I 238f.
  • general Köhler-Bolte I 397
Within the index

Filed under Task: sorting a large amount of grain (beads, beans, peas) in one night.

Filed beside it
Task: sorting grains; performed by helpful birds Suitor test: scattering mountain of mustard seed in one watch gathering it together in another, pressing its oil out in another

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