μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Task: blinding a witch.

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Filed across the traditions
  • Italian Basile Pentamerone IV No. 4.
Within the index

Filed under Miscellaneous tasks.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Task: beheading witch, and bringing head to king Task: catching devastating witch who haunts king's best garden
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: 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: 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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