μῦθοι Mythoi
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Task: killing ferocious beast.

Tests. · Tests of prowess: tasks. · Nature of tasks. · Tasks: stealing, capturing, or slaying. · view the constellation · filed as H1161

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Filed under Tasks: stealing, capturing, or slaying.

6 finer motifs beneath it
Task: killing murderous bird Task: overcoming savage buffalo Task: overcoming elephant Task: killing golden pig Task: killing devastating lion Task: killing devastating tiger
Filed beside it
Theft as a task Task: selling an animal and keeping him Task: selling three old women. (Devil finds that no one wants them.) Tasks: capturing animals Task: taming wild animals. (Cf. H1154.3.) Task: incurring anger of ferocious animal Task: killing certain man. (Cf. H335.3, H335.5, H335.6.) Task: uprooting man-devouring tree. (Cf. H335.) Task: bullfight (buffaloes) Task: duel Task: bringing an ogre to court Task: luring Thor into the power of giants Suitor test: killing monster Bringing fairies to court
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Hound of hell. Cerberus (monstrous dog) guards the bridge to the lower world Two-headed dog Hydra: nine-headed monster. Middle head immortal Man-eating mares Centaur: man-horse. Trunk and head of man, body of horse Hind with golden horns Transformation to animal to seduce woman Magic goblet (glass) Magic song to catch animals. (Cf. D1275.) Transportation by magic goblet. (Cf. D1171.6.2.) Immortality exchanged. Wounded Centaur immortal but cannot be cured. He gives away his immortality to Prometheus and is thus allowed to die Person with three bodies. Body of three men grown together in one at waist but parted in three from flanks and thighs

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