Punishment: performing impossible task. (Cf. H1010.) — Mythoi

Motif

Punishment: performing impossible task. (Cf. H1010.)

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Tedious punishments. · view the constellation · filed as Q512

Within the index

Filed under Tedious punishments.

4 finer motifs beneath it

Performing impossible task as punishment for murder. (Cf. Q211.) Punishment: filling leaky vessels with water from a bottomless jar. (Cf. H1023.2.) Punishment: binding together sand and string. (Cf. H1021.1.) Punishment: ridding country of pests

Filed beside it

Unremitting torture as punishment Wandering as a punishment Wandering after death as punishment Punishment: carrying corpse of murdered man. (Cf. Q211.)

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Impossible tasks

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