Task: capturing bird

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Task: capturing bird.

Tests. · Tests of prowess: tasks. · Nature of tasks. · Tasks: stealing, capturing, or slaying. · view the constellation · filed as H1154.7

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

Irish mythCross.

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Filed under Tasks: capturing animals.

3 finer motifs beneath it

Task: retrieving king's falcon Task: capturing blackbird (yearly)Task: procuring four full-grown peacocks to sit one on each of four golden pinnacles of palace room

Filed beside it

Task: bringing head(s) of animal(s)Task: capturing magic pig carrying scissors, comb, and razors between its ears Task: capturing deer from herd watched by giant Task: bridling a wild animal Task: catching huge fish without nets or tackle Task: capturing elk Task: capturing squirrel and rattlesnake Task: capturing magic horse Task: capturing pair of every wild animal in the land Task: capturing badgers Task: obtaining marrow of wild pig, lard of wild boar, water bird (coot?)Task: bringing in fierce lion alive

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