Task: drinking the sea dry — Mythoi

Motif

Task: drinking the sea dry.

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Filed across the traditions

Norse MacCulloch Eddic 93 (Thor)
Gascon Bladé I 8 No. 1.
general *Anderson FFC XLII 139, 356
general BP II 369
general *Chauvin VIII 62 No. 26

Within the index

Filed under Task: drinking enormous amount.

1 finer motif beneath it

Task: drinking the sea dry (illusion produced by magic thread which makes hero think he is drinking from spring)

Filed beside it

Task: drinking wine – cellar empty Task: drinking the sea dry: countertask: stop all the rivers. (Cf. H951.)

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