Task: defeating a certain old woman. (She is Old Age.) — Mythoi

Motif

Task: defeating a certain old woman. (She is Old Age.)

Tests. · Tests of prowess: tasks. · Nature of tasks. · Superhuman tasks. · view the constellation · filed as H1149.3

Filed across the traditions

Icelandic Boberg.
general Hdwb. d. Märchens I 445b n. 432

Within the index

Filed under Miscellaneous superhuman tasks.

Filed beside it

Task: yoking together lion and wild boar Task: lifting a certain cat. (Is serpent that embraces the earth.) Task: collecting enormous amount of material (number of rare objects, etc.) Feat on spear point. Hero performs it as task set by otherworld amazon Task: breaking pigeon's egg on parapet of castle. Pigeon in ferocious serpent Task: drawing spear thrust through seven iron plates Girl to bring cloth as long as river and raise pig as big as mountain. (Countertask: measure river and weigh mountain.) Task: lifting mountain. Countertask: placing it on my shoulders Task: jumping across river in one bound

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