Task: carrying ever-increasing burden up mountain — Mythoi

Motif

Task: carrying ever-increasing burden up mountain.

Tests. · Tests of prowess: tasks. · Nature of tasks. · Tedious tasks. · view the constellation · filed as H1114.2

Filed across the traditions

German Grimm No. 179. → on our shelf: Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 179

Within the index

Filed under Task: climbing glass mountain.

Filed beside it

Task: securing three eggs from top of glass tower

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

Tears become jewels Disenchantment at midnight after owl hoots three times Attendants of disenchanted person automatically disenchanted Magic skin makes person appear ugly. (Cf. D1005.) Beautification by removal of skin. (Cf. D1889.6.) Provisions magically furnished. (Cf. D1470.) Test of heirship

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