Task: traveling till iron shoes are worn out — Mythoi

Motif

Task: traveling till iron shoes are worn out.

Tests. · Tests of prowess: tasks. · Nature of tasks. · Tedious tasks. · view the constellation · filed as H1125

Filed across the traditions

Missouri French Carrière
Spanish Espinosa Jr. No. 114.
general *Type 425
general *BP II 272
general Köhler-Bolte I 317, 512, 573

Within the index

Filed under Tedious tasks.

1 finer motif beneath it

Task: traveling till two skeins of thread are unwound

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: gathering all stones from brook or field Task: carrying off huge quantity of money Task: keeping up a certain work all night Other tedious tasks

Carried in tale types

Son of the Witch (previously The Disenchanted Husband: the Witch's Tasks) · ATU 425B 6 recorded variants
The Snake as Bridegroom (previously Bathing Girl's Garments Kept) · ATU 425M 1 recorded variant

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