Task: capturing deer from herd watched by giant — Mythoi

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Task: capturing deer from herd watched by giant.

Tests. · Tests of prowess: tasks. · Nature of tasks. · Tasks: stealing, capturing, or slaying. · view the constellation · filed as H1154.2

Filed across the traditions

English Wells 115 (Sir Eglamour).

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Filed under Tasks: capturing animals.

1 finer motif beneath it

Task: capturing ninety pigs, ninety horses, and one hundred wild oxen

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