μῦθοι Mythoi
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  • general De Vries FFC LXXIII 250.
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Filed under Miscellaneous tasks.

1 finer motif beneath it
Task: buying a coin's worth of eggs and another of "ay, ay." Servant puts nettles in bag with eggs, and master cries "Ay, ay" when he touches the nettles
Filed beside it
Task: raising a buried treasureTask: 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 wheelTask: cutting down tree without scratching for stinging insects. (Scratches surreptitiously while gesticulating.)Task: making pigs danceTask 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 girlTask: plowing field of vipers. (Puts on iron boots.)Task: blinding a witchTask: combing hair of fairiesTask: causing dry spring to flow againTask: making person laughTask: having a shirt made by a woman free from trouble and worryTask: freeing king from clutches of magic doll. Will marry rescuer if a girlTask: crossing weed-filled stream. Hero spreads cloth on weeds and floats acrossTask: picking ruby out of a tray filled with identical rubiesOther tasks
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