Task: gathering all stones from brook or field

Motif

Task: gathering all stones from brook or field.

Tests. · Tests of prowess: tasks. · Nature of tasks. · Tedious tasks. · view the constellation · filed as H1124

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.

general Type 1172.

Within the index

Filed under Tedious tasks.

Filed beside it

Task: carrying hundreds of sheep across stream one at a time Task: herding rabbits Task: bailing out a pond Task: climbing glass mountain Task: chopping down large tree with blunt (fragile) implements. (Cf. H1095.)Task: breaking huge rock to pieces Task: 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: preparing large quantity of grain Task: feeding ravenous beast to satiation Task: traveling till iron shoes are worn out Task: carrying off huge quantity of money Task: keeping up a certain work all night Other tedious tasks

Carried in tale types

All Stones from the Stream or the Field · ATU 11721 recorded variant

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