Task: stealing eggs from under bird — Mythoi

Motif

Task: stealing eggs from under bird.

Tests. · Tests of prowess: tasks. · Nature of tasks. · Tasks: stealing, capturing, or slaying. · view the constellation · filed as H1151.12

Filed across the traditions

India *Thompson-Balys
Africa Weeks Jungle 43, (Madagascar): Renel II 118f. No. 91.
general Type 653

Within the index

Filed under Theft as a task.

Filed beside it

Task: stealing golden apples Task: stealing twelve horses out of stall. (Cf. H1151.13.3.) Task: stealing sheet from bed on which person is sleeping Task: stealing ring from finger Task: stealing belt from queen Task: stealing elephant's tail (tusks) Task: stealing the two horns of a savage bull Task: stealing cattle which are guarded by a marvelous dog Task: stealing troll's golden horse Task: bringing branch from tree guarded by ghosts Task: bringing a baby lion's tail to use as broom Task: stealing from a king Task: stealing sword from giant Task: stealing goddess Freya's necklace Task: stealing the mead of poetry Task: stealing the bait of the demon Añan

Carried in tale types

The Four Skillful Brothers · ATU 653 4 recorded variants

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