Task: sorting grains; performed by helpful birds

Motif

Task: sorting grains; performed by helpful birds.

Tests. · Tests of prowess: tasks. · Nature of tasks. · Tasks requiring miraculous speed. · view the constellation · filed as H1091.2

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Scholars’ trail — 4references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

Missouri FrenchCarrière
India*Thompson-Balys
JapaneseIkeda.
general *Fb "fugl"

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 ants Suitor test: scattering mountain of mustard seed in one watch gathering it together in another, pressing its oil out in another

Carried in tale types

The Orphan Girl and her Cruel Sisters-in-Law · ATU 8972 recorded variants

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