μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

  • BretonSébillot Incidents s. v. "grain"
  • SpanishEspinosa Jr. Nos. 71–74
  • India*Thompson-Balys.
Within the index

Filed under Tedious tasks.

1 finer motif beneath it
Task: supplying superhuman amount of grain
Filed beside it
Task: carrying hundreds of sheep across stream one at a timeTask: herding rabbitsTask: bailing out a pondTask: climbing glass mountainTask: chopping down large tree with blunt (fragile) implements. (Cf. H1095.)Task: breaking huge rock to piecesTask: bringing as many horses as there are days in the year. (Brings one for each week-day.)Task: counting hairs in pig's back (feathers in bird)Task: picking all nuts from tall tree. (Performed by grateful squirrel.)Task: feeding ravenous beast to satiationTask: gathering all stones from brook or fieldTask: traveling till iron shoes are worn outTask: carrying off huge quantity of moneyTask: keeping up a certain work all nightOther tedious tasks
Carried in tale types

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