Task: building enormous bridge. (Cf. H359.1.) — Mythoi

Motif

Task: building enormous bridge. (Cf. H359.1.)

Tests. · Tests of prowess: tasks. · Nature of tasks. · Superhuman tasks. · view the constellation · filed as H1131

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth Cross
Japanese Ikeda.

Within the index

Filed under Superhuman tasks.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Task: building bridge over land and sea Devil as suitor assigned task to build bridge or dam

Filed beside it

Task: recovering lost objects Task: building castle (fort) Task: annihilating (overcoming) army single-handed Task: bringing winds from the whole world Task: binding waves of the sea Task: supplying water in land where it is lacking Task: eating enormous amount Task: drinking enormous amount Task: dipping out the sea with a spoon: countertask: stop all the rivers. (Cf. H1113., H1142.3.) Task: measuring ocean Tasks: other difficult measurements Task: carrying mountain on head Task: making ladder which whole army cannot set up Miscellaneous superhuman tasks

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Suitor test: building causeway. (Cf. H1131.)

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