Task: bringing water from distant fountain more quickly than a witch

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Task: bringing water from distant fountain more quickly than a witch.

Tests. · Tests of prowess: tasks. · Nature of tasks. · Tasks requiring miraculous speed. · view the constellation · filed as H1109.1

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SpanishBoggs FFC XC 68 No. 513.

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Filed under Other tasks requiring miraculous speed.

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Task: hauling enormous number of things from one farm to another in one day Task: killing enough birds in one day to cover the mountain, each bird to be of a different species Task: exterminating mice infesting city in three days

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