Task: drinking enormous amount — Mythoi

Motif

Task: drinking enormous amount.

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Filed across the traditions

Icelandic Boberg
India Thompson-Balys.
general *Type 513

Within the index

Filed under Superhuman tasks.

3 finer motifs beneath it

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

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: eating 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

Carried in tale types

Six Go through the Whole World · ATU 513A 6 recorded variants

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