μῦθοι Mythoi
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18 finer motifs beneath it
Task: planting beautiful gardenTask: healing sick personTask: shouting from forbidden placeTask: engraving shield with unique patternTask: disenchantment. (Cf. D700.)Task: swine to shake bole of certain treeTask: swine to eat fish of certain watersTask: defending oneself alone against fifteen ships, sixty men. (Cf. H915.1.)Task: ridding city of thievesTask: jumping over fireTask: going to bed with Odin, the underworld's kingTask: unusual pasturingTask: squaring the lumber on a stone without blunting the axe. Woman is purposely sent to distract himTask: climbing extraordinary (high, thin) cliffTask: securing dishes which have been locked up in vaultTask: producing seven pairs of chopsticks in seven plates. (A lacquered plate and pair of chopsticks – seven coats of lacquer.)Task: guardingTask: knocking off single fruit from king's tree
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: preparing the food "Oh my". (Needle put in food which causes eater to say "Oh my!")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 rubies

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