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Miscellaneous superhuman tasks.

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

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Task: yoking together lion and wild boar Task: lifting a certain cat. (Is serpent that embraces the earth.) Task: defeating a certain old woman. (She is Old Age.) 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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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: 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

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