μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 6references

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.

  • Irish myth*Cross
  • IcelandicBoberg (H322.5)
  • BretonSébillot Incidents s. v. "forêt"
  • ItalianBasile Pentamerone II No. 7.
  • general *Type 313
  • general Fb "skov" III 300a
Within the index

Filed under Tasks requiring miraculous speed.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Task: collecting firewood quickly, sufficient to last remainder of one's lifeTask: stacking wood from felled forest in one day
Filed beside it
Task: sorting a large amount of grain (beads, beans, peas) in one nightTask: spinning impossible amount in one night. (Cf. H1022.2.)Task: embroidering blanket in one day. (Help from animals.) (Cf. B571.)Task: unraveling in short timeTask: 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: chopping down large tree with blunt (fragile) implements. (Cf. H1095.)

wander