μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Task: cutting down tree without scratching for stinging insects. (Scratches surreptitiously while gesticulating.)

Tests. · Tests of prowess: tasks. · Nature of tasks. · Miscellaneous tasks. · view the constellation · filed as H1184

Cited in the index
  • general *Jamaica Beckwith MAFLS XVII 250f. No. 29.
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Filed under Miscellaneous tasks.

Filed beside it
Task: raising a buried treasure Task: letting king hear something that neither he nor his subjects have ever heard. (Reads a letter from a foreign king demanding a loan.) Task: carrying a wagon axle which has broken a wheel 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

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