Task: cutting firewood from rocks with brass axe (rock struck to splinters by lightning used).
Tests. · Tests of prowess: tasks. · Nature of tasks. · Tedious tasks. · view the constellation · filed as H1116.1
Motif
Filed across the traditions
- Africa (Ganda) Baskerville 8ff.
Carried in tale types
- The Devil in Noah's Ark [K485] · ATU 825 4 recorded variants
ask the rhapsode about this motif · search the shelf for “splinters” · wander