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

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

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

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Scholars’ trail — 11references

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.

SwissJegerlehner Oberwallis 322 No. 87
BretonSébillot Incidents s. v. "pois"
SpanishBoggs FFC XC 68 No. 513
India*Thompson-Balys
IndonesiaDixon 226
ChineseGraham
N. Am. Indian (Thompson River)Teit JE VIII 392 No. 100.
general *Types 313, 554
general *BP II 28, 517
general *Köhler-Bolte I 397
general *Fb "fugl", "gryn"

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Filed under Tasks requiring miraculous speed.

3 finer motifs beneath it

Task: sorting grains: performed by helpful ants 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

Filed beside it

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

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