μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 7references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our public shelf are live links; research-library references point to an exact index page without serving the book; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

Within the index

Filed under Tasks requiring miraculous speed.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Task: spinning and weaving large amount by specified timeHelpful animal performs spinning task. (Cf. B571.)
Filed beside it
Task: sorting a large amount of grain (beads, beans, peas) in one nightTask: embroidering blanket in one day. (Help from animals.) (Cf. B571.)Task: unraveling in short timeTask: felling a forest in one night. (Cf. H1115.)Task: washing enormous number of clothes (and other articles) in short timeTask: draining sea-covered land in one nightTask: removing mountain (mound) in one nightTask: cleaning Augean stable. Stable has not been cleaned in years. Must be done in one night. River turned through itTask: setting out vineyard in one nightTask: building castle in one nightTask: digging a pond quicklyTask: shearing flock of sheep in one dayTask: bringing documents from distant city in one dayTask: paving great road in short timeOther tasks requiring miraculous speed
Travels with
Task: making many shirts (clothing an army) from one hank of flax (wool)
Carried in tale types

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