Task: eating enormous amount

Motif

Task: eating enormous amount.

Tests. · Tests of prowess: tasks. · Nature of tasks. · Superhuman tasks. · view the constellation · filed as H1141

Scholars’ trail — 4references

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Missouri FrenchCarrière
IndiaThompson-Balys
AfricaWerner African 153.
general *Type 513

Within the index

Filed under Superhuman tasks.

4 finer motifs beneath it

Task: eating mountain of bread Task: eating three hundred fat oxen Task: eating room-full of salt. (Trickster eats only a pinch. "He who has eaten with a friend as much salt as I have eaten and does not recognize the friendship will not do so though he eat ten rooms full of salt.")Task: eating entire goat without leaving a scrap

Filed beside it

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

Suitor contest: eating one hundred carcasses at a sitting. (Cf. H1141.)

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