Task: cutting firewood from rocks with brass axe (rock struck to splinters by lightning used)

Motif

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

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

Africa (Ganda)Baskerville 8ff.

Within the index

Filed under Task: breaking huge rock to pieces.

Filed beside it

Task: breaking iron with wooden axe Task: tearing down a huge wall

Carried in tale types

The Devil in Noah's Ark [K485] · ATU 8254 recorded variants

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