Task: healing sick person

Motif

Task: healing sick person.

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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 Types 551, 610–12
general Africa (Tanga): Nassau JAFL XXVIII 30ff. No. 5.

Within the index

Filed under Other tasks.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Task: causing sickness to come to certain tribe Task: curing extraordinarily incurable ulcer

Filed beside it

Task: planting beautiful garden Task: shouting from forbidden place Task: engraving shield with unique pattern Task: disenchantment. (Cf. D700.)Task: swine to shake bole of certain tree Task: swine to eat fish of certain waters Task: defending oneself alone against fifteen ships, sixty men. (Cf. H915.1.)Task: ridding city of thieves Task: jumping over fire Task: going to bed with Odin, the underworld's king Task: unusual pasturing Task: squaring the lumber on a stone without blunting the axe. Woman is purposely sent to distract him Task: climbing extraordinary (high, thin) cliff Task: securing dishes which have been locked up in vault Task: producing seven pairs of chopsticks in seven plates. (A lacquered plate and pair of chopsticks – seven coats of lacquer.)Task: guarding

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