Task: letting king hear something that neither he nor his subjects have ever heard. (Reads a letter from a foreign king demanding a loan.)

Motif

Task: letting king hear something that neither he nor his subjects have ever heard. (Reads a letter from a foreign king demanding a loan.)

Tests. · Tests of prowess: tasks. · Nature of tasks. · Miscellaneous tasks. · view the constellation · filed as H1182

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.

general Chauvin VI 39 No. 207.

Within the index

Filed under Miscellaneous tasks.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Task: recovering money owed by a foreign king King asks favorite minister to show him a trick that he has never seen before

Filed beside it

Task: raising a buried treasure Task: carrying a wagon axle which has broken a wheel Task: cutting down tree without scratching for stinging insects. (Scratches surreptitiously while gesticulating.)Task: preparing the food "Oh my". (Needle put in food which causes eater to say "Oh my!")Task: making pigs dance Task left by departing husband for virgin wife to accomplish: have a son whose real mother she is and whose real father he is. She accomplishes this by disguising as a girl Task: plowing field of vipers. (Puts on iron boots.)Task: blinding a witch Task: combing hair of fairies Task: causing dry spring to flow again Task: making person laugh Task: having a shirt made by a woman free from trouble and worry Task: freeing king from clutches of magic doll. Will marry rescuer if a girl Task: crossing weed-filled stream. Hero spreads cloth on weeds and floats across Task: picking ruby out of a tray filled with identical rubies Other tasks

Carried in tale types

Never Heard Before · ATU 921E1 recorded variant

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