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• Task: recovering crown from sea. H1132.1.7
• Task: recovering object in large fire. H1132.2
• Task: recovering object from python's hole. H1132.3
• Task: getting ring from python's hole (help from python goddess). H1132.3.1
• Task: building castle (fort). H1133
• Task: building magic castle. H1133.1
• Task: building castle in air. H1133.2
• Task: building castle in sea. H1133.3
• Task: building palace of gold (crystal). H1133.4
• Task: building palace and city. H1133.5
• Task: building exact replica of castle in wax. H1133.6
• Task: annihilating (overcoming) army single-handed. H1135
• Task: bringing winds from the whole world. H1136
• Task: bringing back flour scattered by wind. H1136.1
• Task: gathering wind in fists. H1136.2
• Task: binding waves of the sea. H1137
• Task: supplying water in land where it is lacking. H1138
• Task: "to turn low stream and fill the high stream." H1138.1
• Task: eating enormous amount. H1141
• Task: eating mountain of bread. H1141.1
• Task: eating three hundred fat oxen. H1141.2
• Task: eating room-full of salt. (Trickster eats only a pinch. "He who has eaten with a friend as much salt as I have eaten and does not recognize the friendship will not do so though he eat ten rooms full of salt.") H1141.3
• Task: eating entire goat without leaving a scrap. H1141.4
• Task: drinking enormous amount. H1142
• Task: drinking wine – cellar empty. H1142.1
• Task: drinking the sea dry. H1142.2
• Task: drinking the sea dry (illusion produced by magic thread which makes hero think he is drinking from spring). H1142.2.1
• Task: drinking the sea dry: countertask: stop all the rivers. (Cf. H951.) H1142.3
• Task: dipping out the sea with a spoon: countertask: stop all the rivers. (Cf. H1113., H1142.3.) H1143
• Task: emptying the lake with a pail in one day. H1143.1
• Task: measuring ocean. H1144
• Task: to collect together all the drops of water. H1144.1
• Task: counting the waves. H1144.2
• Tasks: other difficult measurements. H1145
• Task: weighing fire. H1145.1
• Task: measuring a gust of wind. H1145.2
• Task: carrying mountain on head. H1146
• Task: making ladder which whole army cannot set up. H1147
• Miscellaneous superhuman tasks. H1149
• Task: yoking together lion and wild boar. H1149.1
• Task: lifting a certain cat. (Is serpent that embraces the earth.) H1149.2
• Task: defeating a certain old woman. (She is Old Age.) H1149.3
• Task: collecting enormous amount of material (number of rare objects, etc.) H1149.4
• Feat on spear point. Hero performs it as task set by otherworld amazon. H1149.5
• Task: breaking pigeon's egg on parapet of castle. Pigeon in ferocious serpent. H1149.6
• Task: drawing spear thrust through seven iron plates. H1149.7
• Girl to bring cloth as long as river and raise pig as big as mountain. (Countertask: measure river and weigh mountain.) H1149.8
• Task: lifting mountain. Countertask: placing it on my shoulders. H1149.9
• Task: jumping across river in one bound. H1149.10
• Tasks: stealing, capturing, or slaying. H1150
• Theft as a task. H1151
• Task: stealing golden apples. H1151.1
• Task: stealing a golden lotus. H1151.1.1
• Task: stealing twelve horses out of stall. (Cf. H1151.13.3.) H1151.2
• Task: stealing horse when owner has been forewarned. H1151.2.1
• Task: stealing king's horse as he rides on it. H1151.2.2
• Task: stealing sheet from bed on which person is sleeping. H1151.3
• Task: stealing tray from king's bedside. H1151.3.1
• Task: stealing ring from finger. H1151.4
• Task: stealing belt from queen. H1151.5
• Task: stealing girdle of goddess. H1151.5.1
• Task: stealing elephant's tail (tusks). H1151.6
• Task: stealing enormous diamond from elephant's forehead. H1151.6.1
• Task: stealing the two horns of a savage bull. H1151.7
• Task: stealing gold-filled horn of wild three-horned ox. (Cf. H933.2.) H1151.7.1
• Task: stealing cattle which are guarded by a marvelous dog. H1151.8
• Task: stealing troll's golden horse. H1151.9
• Task: bringing branch from tree guarded by ghosts. H1151.10
• Task: stealing pears from ingeniously guarded garden. H1151.10.1
• Task: bringing a baby lion's tail to use as broom. H1151.11
• Task: stealing eggs from under bird. H1151.12
• Task: stealing from a king. H1151.13
• Task: stealing pigskin from a king. H1151.13.1
• Task: stealing spear from a king. H1151.13.2
• Task: stealing horses (and chariot) from a king. (Cf. H1151.2.) H1151.13.3
• Task: stealing hound from a king. H1151.13.4
• Task: stealing three pearls from king's heavily guarded treasury. H1151.13.5
• Task: stealing sword from giant. H1151.14
• Task: stealing goddess Freya's necklace. H1151.15
• Task: stealing the mead of poetry. H1151.16
• Task: stealing the bait of the demon Añan. H1151.17
• Task: liberating wife's sister, elephant's captive, who lives in a box in his ear. H1151.18
• Task: eating only what is stolen without sinning. H1151.19
• Task: stealing magic healing apples. (Cf. H1323.) H1151.20
• Task: stealing magic healing water. (Cf. D1500.1.18.) H1151.21
• Task: stealing laborer's pajamas. H1151.22
• Task: stealing beautiful clothing of a witch. H1151.23
• Task: stealing ogress's drum. H1151.24
• Task: stealing ogre's grain. H1151.25
• Task: bringing ruby in head of devastating serpent. H1151.26
• Task: selling an animal and keeping him. H1152
• Task: selling a sheep (goat) and bringing it back along with the money. (Shears and sells wool; brings animal back.) H1152.1
• Task: selling three old women. (Devil finds that no one wants them.) H1153
• Tasks: capturing animals. H1154
• Task: bringing head(s) of animal(s). H1154.0.1
• Task: capturing magic pig carrying scissors, comb, and razors between its ears. H1154.1
• Task: capturing deer from herd watched by giant. H1154.2
• Task: capturing ninety pigs, ninety horses, and one hundred wild oxen. H1154.2.1
• Task: bridling a wild animal. H1154.3
• Task: bridling a wild horse. H1154.3.1
• Task: bridling ferocious bear. H1154.3.2
• Task: capturing and binding ferocious boar. H1154.3.3
• Task: measuring (killing) wild boar. H1154.3.3.1
• Task: capturing wild elephant. H1154.3.4
• Task: loading ferocious camels. H1154.3.5
• Task: yoking stags. H1154.3.6
• Task: bringing tigers. H1154.3.7
• Task: procuring four full-grown tigers to guard four gates of king's palace. H1154.3.7.1
• Task: catching huge fish without nets or tackle. H1154.4
• Task: capturing elk. H1154.5
• Task: capturing squirrel and rattlesnake. H1154.6
• Task: capturing bird. H1154.7
• Task: retrieving king's falcon. H1154.7.1
• Task: capturing blackbird (yearly). H1154.7.2
• Task: procuring four full-grown peacocks to sit one on each of four golden pinnacles of palace room. H1154.7.3
• Task: capturing magic horse. H1154.8
• Task: capturing pair of every wild animal in the land. H1154.9
• Task: capturing badgers. H1154.10
• Task: obtaining marrow of wild pig, lard of wild boar, water bird (coot?). H1154.11
• Task: bringing in fierce lion alive. H1154.12
• Task: taming wild animals. (Cf. H1154.3.) H1155
• Riding and taming a wild horse. H1155.1
• Task: grooming unruly mare. H1155.1.1
• Task: milking unruly cow. H1155.2
• Task: feeding dangerous man-eating sow. H1155.3
• Task: caring for mad elephant. H1155.4
• Task: riding buffaloes. H1155.5
• Task: incurring anger of ferocious animal. H1156
• Task: setting fire to brush wood near abode of sacred cobra. H1156.1
• Task: killing ferocious beast. H1161
• Task: killing murderous bird. H1161.1
• Task: overcoming savage buffalo. H1161.2
• Task: killing ox. H1161.2.1
• Task: killing fierce bull. (Cf. H1151.7.) H1161.2.2
• Task: overcoming elephant. H1161.3
• Task: mouse to fight single-handed with king's state elephant and destroy it. H1161.3.1
• Task: killing golden pig. H1161.4
• Task: killing devastating lion. H1161.5
• Task: killing devastating tiger. H1161.6
• Task: killing certain man. (Cf. H335.3, H335.5, H335.6.) H1162
• Task: overcoming robbers. H1162.1
• Task: slaying king's son so that father will not die. H1162.2
• Task: uprooting man-devouring tree. (Cf. H335.) H1163
• Task: bullfight (buffaloes). H1165
• Task: duel. H1166
• Task: wrestling etc. with giant warrior. H1166.1
• Task: bringing an ogre to court. H1172
• Task: luring Thor into the power of giants. H1173
• Suitor test: killing monster. H1174
• Task: bringing back two heads of a giant. H1174.1
• Task: overcoming dragon. H1174.2
• Bringing fairies to court. H1177
• Suitor task: to make fairies dance before princess. H1177.1
• Miscellaneous tasks. H1180
• Task: raising a buried treasure. H1181
• Task: letting king hear something that neither he nor his subjects have ever heard. (Reads a letter from a foreign king demanding a loan.) H1182
• Task: recovering money owed by a foreign king. H1182.1
• King asks favorite minister to show him a trick that he has never seen before. H1182.2
• Task: carrying a wagon axle which has broken a wheel. H1183
• Task: cutting down tree without scratching for stinging insects. (Scratches surreptitiously while gesticulating.) H1184
• Task: preparing the food "Oh my". (Needle put in food which causes eater to say "Oh my!") H1185
• 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. H1185.1
• Task: making pigs dance. H1186
• 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. H1187
• Task: plowing field of vipers. (Puts on iron boots.) H1188
• Task: blinding a witch. H1191
• Task: beheading witch, and bringing head to king. H1191.1
• Task: catching devastating witch who haunts king's best garden. H1191.2
• Task: combing hair of fairies. H1192
• Task: causing dry spring to flow again. H1193
• Task: making person laugh. H1194
• Task: causing silent person to speak. H1194.0.1
• Man whose laughter brings rain will not laugh: brought to laughter when people who, unknown to each other, have gone to sleep in same dark room frighten each other. H1194.1
• Task: making jackal laugh (weep). H1194.2
• Task: having a shirt made by a woman free from trouble and worry. H1195
• Task: freeing king from clutches of magic doll. Will marry rescuer if a girl. H1196
• Task: crossing weed-filled stream. Hero spreads cloth on weeds and floats across. H1197
• Task: picking ruby out of a tray filled with identical rubies. H1198
• Other tasks. H1199
• Task: planting beautiful garden. H1199.1
• Task: healing sick person. H1199.2
• Task: causing sickness to come to certain tribe. H1199.2.1
• Task: curing extraordinarily incurable ulcer. H1199.2.2
• Task: shouting from forbidden place. H1199.3
• Task: engraving shield with unique pattern. H1199.4
• Task: disenchantment. (Cf. D700.) H1199.5
• Task: swine to shake bole of certain tree. H1199.6
• Task: swine to eat fish of certain waters. H1199.7
• Task: defending oneself alone against fifteen ships, sixty men. (Cf. H915.1.) H1199.8
• Task: ridding city of thieves. H1199.9
• Task: discovering ring-thief. H1199.9.1
• Task: jumping over fire. H1199.10
• Task: going to bed with Odin, the underworld's king. H1199.11
• Task: unusual pasturing. H1199.12
• Task: shepherd in God's service tending sheep and following where they go. On the way, he sees many wonderful things. (Cf. F171.0.1.) H1199.12.1
• Task: pasturing witch's cattle (really her daughters). Grateful animals give help (cf. B571.) H1199.12.2
• Task: squaring the lumber on a stone without blunting the axe. Woman is purposely sent to distract him. H1199.13
• Task: climbing extraordinary (high, thin) cliff. H1199.14
• Task: securing dishes which have been locked up in vault. H1199.15
• Task: producing seven pairs of chopsticks in seven plates. (A lacquered plate and pair of chopsticks – seven coats of lacquer.) H1199.16