Task: spinning impossible amount in one night. (Cf. H1022.2.) — Mythoi

Motif

Task: spinning impossible amount in one night. (Cf. H1022.2.)

Tests. · Tests of prowess: tasks. · Nature of tasks. · Tasks requiring miraculous speed. · view the constellation · filed as H1092

Filed across the traditions

Italian Basile Pentamerone IV No. 4
Japanese Ikeda.
general *Types 500, 501, 708
general BP I 109ff., 490ff.
general *Fb "spinde" III 492a
general Hoffmann-Krayer Zs. f. Vksk. XXV 120 nn. 7, 8
general Köhler-Bolte ibid. VI 71

Within the index

Filed under Tasks requiring miraculous speed.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Task: spinning and weaving large amount by specified time Helpful animal performs spinning task. (Cf. B571.)

Filed beside it

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

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Task: making many shirts (clothing an army) from one hank of flax (wool)

Carried in tale types

The Name of the Supernatural Helper · ATU 500 3 recorded variants
The Three Old Spinning Women (previously The Three Old Women Helpers) · ATU 501 3 recorded variants

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