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• Task: washing large heavy quilt covered with ghi and oil without aid of soap or anything. H1023.6.1
• Task: sewing together a broken mill-stone. H1023.7
• Task: sewing together a broken egg. H1023.7.1
• Task: sewing together a broken ship. H1023.7.2
• Task: fixing the two pieces of a broken sword together. H1023.8
• Task: mending a broken jug. H1023.9
• Task: mending a broken jug; countertask: turning it wrong side out as one does a shoe. (Cf. H951.) H1023.9.1
• Task: skinning a stone. H1023.10
• Task: skinning a stone; countertask: first let the stone bleed. H1023.10.1
• Task: putting a large squash whole into a narrow-necked jar. H1023.11
• Task: catching a noise. H1023.12
• Task: catching a man's broken wind. H1023.13
• Task: splitting a hair with a blunt knife. H1023.14
• Task: turning fruit into gold. H1023.15
• Task: making sun and moon shine in the north. H1023.16
• Task: sowing rye and bringing crop next morning. (Cf. H1023.1.2.) H1023.17
• Task: putting peaches back on tree. H1023.18
• Task: bringing bundle of faggots without rope to tie them. Helpful snake coils himself about them. H1023.19
• Task: fetching water from the well in a bucket without the use of rope to draw it with. H1023.20
• Task: gathering a necklace of rubies from the sea. H1023.21
• Task: catching a sunbeam. H1023.22
• Task: tying the sun with a stone chain. H1023.23
• Suitor asked to bathe in great cauldron of boiling water without making water lukewarm. H1023.24
• Task: bringing a well (pond, lake) to king. Hero asks for another lake to tie to it and overawes king. H1023.25
• Task: bringing well to king; countertask: sending his own well to accompany it. (Cf. H951.) H1023.25.1
• Tasks contrary to the nature of animals. H1024
• Task: milking a bull. H1024.1
• Task: making a bull bear a calf. H1024.1.1
• Task: making a bull bear a calf. Reductio ad absurdum: have a man prepare for childbirth. (Cf. H952.) H1024.1.1.1
• Task: placing frogs in a tree. H1024.2
• Task: chasing a hare into every trap in a high tree. H1024.3
• Task: teaching an ass to read. H1024.4
• Task: sowing dragon's teeth. H1024.5
• Task: procuring bird out of season. H1024.6
• Task: teaching animal to speak. H1024.7
• Task: teaching horse to speak. H1024.7.1
• Task: spinning wool still on goat's back. H1024.8
• Task: obtaining fat (bacon) from swine that never was farrowed. H1025
• Task: changing the course of time. H1026
• Task: naming those things which have not yet happened. H1026.1
• Task: bringing past time to present. H1026.2
• Other impossible tasks. H1030
• Task: showing picture of a voice. H1033
• Task: eating the moon. H1035
• Task: building castle suspended between heaven and earth. H1036
• Task: getting fruit from top of tall tree without cutting tree. (Cuts roots of tree.) H1038
• Task: bringing a plantain leaf from the garden without tearing it. H1041
• Task: recalling a dream someone else has had. H1042
• Task: filling a sack full of lies (truths). H1045
• Task: going to get nothing and bringing it back. H1045.1
• Task: carrying woman across river without wetting feet. Hero fails. H1046
• Task: dipping water without wetting dipper. H1046.1
• Task: cutting and bringing leaves from thorn thicket without tearing them at all. H1046.2
• Task: drinking beer without touching pot. H1046.3
• Task: bringing melon 12 cubits long with seed 13 cubits long. H1047
• Other impossible tasks – miscellaneous. H1049
• Task: bringing the foam of the ocean in a large piece of cloth. H1049.1
• Task: growing oil seed on stony ground. H1049.2
• Task: setting back sun. (Cf. D2146.1.1.) H1049.3
• Task: stopping the rain. (Cf. D2141.1.) H1049.4
• Paradoxical tasks. H1050
• Task: coming neither on nor off the road. (Comes in the rut or the ditch at side of the road.) H1051
• Task: standing neither inside nor outside of gate. (Forefeet of horse inside, hind feet outside.) H1052
• Task: coming neither on horse nor on foot (riding nor walking). H1053
• Task: coming neither on horse nor on foot. (Comes on another animal.) H1053.1
• Task: coming neither on horse nor on foot. (Comes sitting on animal but with feet reaching ground.) H1053.2
• Task: coming neither on horse nor on foot. (Comes with one leg on animal's back, one on ground.) H1053.3
• Task: coming neither on horse nor on foot. (Coming drawn by an animal on net, trough, or sledge.) H1053.4
• Task: coming neither on horse nor on foot. (Walks on a stick horse.) H1053.5
• Task: coming neither on horse nor on foot. (Crawls on all fours.) H1053.6
• Task: coming neither naked nor clad. H1054
• Task: coming neither naked nor clad. (Comes wrapped in net or the like.) H1054.1
• Task: coming neither naked nor clad. (Comes clothed in own hair.) H1054.2
• Task: coming neither naked nor clad. (Comes with part of body clothed.) H1054.3
• Task: coming "neither in softness nor in hardness." (Comes clad in garments of mountain down.) H1054.4
• Task: coming neither barefoot nor shod. (Comes with one shoe on, one off; or in soleless shoes.) H1055
• Task: coming neither with nor without a present (game). (Lets bird fly as the reaches it toward king.) H1056
• Task: coming neither by day nor by night. (Comes at twilight.) H1057
• Task: standing between summer and winter. (Stands between wagon and sleigh.) H1058
• Task: coming neither with nor without a companion. (Comes with an animal.) H1061
• Task: coming neither washed nor unwashed. (Comes partly washed.) H1062
• Task: coming neither hungry nor satiated. (Eats a thin soup, a leaf, a single grain, or the like.) H1063
• Task: coming laughing and crying at once. (Rubs eyes with a twig to simulate crying.) H1064
• Task: bringing best friend, worst enemy, best servant, greatest pleasure-giver. (Brings dog, wife, ass, little son respectively.) H1065
• Task: sweep the floor and do not sweep it. H1066
• Task: light fire but do not light it. H1067
• Task: making bed but do not make it. H1068
• Task: eat bread but bring it back whole. (Center of loaf eaten.) H1071
• Task: give sheep good care but do not let it fatten. (Sheep fed but kept near wolf where it is afraid and does not fatten.) H1072
• Task: filling glasses with water that has neither fallen from heaven nor sprung from the earth. (Uses horse's sweat.) H1073
• Task: furnish beef which is neither male nor female. Countertask: send for it when it is neither night nor day. H1074
• Task: bringing something ever-increasing (ambition); something ever-decreasing (life); something which neither increases nor decreases (one's fated lot); and something which both increases and decreases (universe). H1075
• Task: building house neither on ground nor in sky. H1077
• Tasks requiring miraculous speed. H1090
• Task: sorting a large amount of grain (beads, beans, peas) in one night. H1091
• Task: sorting grains: performed by helpful ants. H1091.1
• Task: sorting grains; performed by helpful birds. H1091.2
• Suitor test: scattering mountain of mustard seed in one watch gathering it together in another, pressing its oil out in another. H1091.3
• Task: spinning impossible amount in one night. (Cf. H1022.2.) H1092
• Task: spinning and weaving large amount by specified time. H1092.0.1
• Helpful animal performs spinning task. (Cf. B571.) H1092.1
• Task: embroidering blanket in one day. (Help from animals.) (Cf. B571.) H1093
• Task: unraveling in short time. H1094
• Task: unraveling a net in a short time. H1094.1
• Task: felling a forest in one night. (Cf. H1115.) H1095
• Task: collecting firewood quickly, sufficient to last remainder of one's life. H1095.1
• Task: stacking wood from felled forest in one day. H1095.2
• Task: washing enormous number of clothes (and other articles) in short time. H1096
• Task: draining sea-covered land in one night. H1097
• Task: drying up a lake in one night. H1097.1
• Task: cleaning enormous cistern in one day. H1097.2
• Task: removing mountain (mound) in one night. H1101
• Task: cleaning Augean stable. Stable has not been cleaned in years. Must be done in one night. River turned through it. H1102
• Task: cleaning cowshed. H1102.1
• Task: emptying in one day a barn filled with manure. H1102.2
• Task: setting out vineyard in one night. H1103
• Task: making garden quickly in unplanted forest. H1103.1
• Task: making garden in three days. H1103.1.1
• Task: plowing enormous amount of land in one day. H1103.2
• Task: preparing and sowing impossible amount of land overnight. H1103.2.1
• Task: planting and growing crop overnight. H1103.2.2
• Task: covering mango tree grove with fruit in a single night. (Cf. H1023.17.) H1103.3
• Task: building castle in one night. H1104
• Task: building castle in three days. H1104.0.1
• Task: building a lodge entirely of bird's feathers in one night. H1104.1
• Task: in one day feathering a barn, each feather from different bird. H1104.1.1
• Task: thatching roof with bird feathers; half blow away while other half are sought. (Cf. F171.6.6.) H1104.1.2
• Task: building entire village in one night. H1104.2
• Task: building a house of iron in one night. H1104.3
• Task: erecting marriage hall in one night. H1104.4
• Task: building granary full of grain overnight. H1104.5
• Task: digging a pond quickly. H1105
• Task: shearing flock of sheep in one day. H1106
• Task: bringing documents from distant city in one day. H1107
• Task: paving great road in short time. H1108
• Other tasks requiring miraculous speed. H1109
• Task: bringing water from distant fountain more quickly than a witch. H1109.1
• Task: hauling enormous number of things from one farm to another in one day. H1109.2
• Task: killing enough birds in one day to cover the mountain, each bird to be of a different species. H1109.3
• Task: exterminating mice infesting city in three days. H1109.4
• Tedious tasks. H1110
• Task: carrying hundreds of sheep across stream one at a time. H1111
• Task: herding rabbits. H1112
• Task: keeping four dogs in herd. H1112.1
• Task: pasturing a cow which continues to run all day. H1112.2
• Task: bailing out a pond. H1113
• Bailing out pond with thimble. H1113.1
• Task: climbing glass mountain. H1114
• Task: securing three eggs from top of glass tower. H1114.1
• Task: carrying ever-increasing burden up mountain. H1114.2
• Task: chopping down large tree with blunt (fragile) implements. (Cf. H1095.) H1115
• Task: cutting down huge tree which magically regrows. H1115.1
• Task: sawing iron tree in two. H1115.2
• Task: cutting down a giant tree. H1115.3
• Task: breaking huge rock to pieces. H1116
• Task: cutting firewood from rocks with brass axe (rock struck to splinters by lightning used). H1116.1
• Task: breaking iron with wooden axe. H1116.2
• Task: tearing down a huge wall. H1116.3
• Task: bringing as many horses as there are days in the year. (Brings one for each week-day.) H1117
• Task: counting hairs in pig's back (feathers in bird). H1118
• Task: counting the seeds in a package of mustard. H1118.1
• Task: counting daily how many leaves fall off a tree. H1118.2
• Task: counting palm trees within view of king's palace. H1118.3
• Task: picking all nuts from tall tree. (Performed by grateful squirrel.) H1121
• Task: preparing large quantity of grain. H1122
• Task: supplying superhuman amount of grain. H1122.1
• Task: feeding ravenous beast to satiation. H1123
• Task: gathering all stones from brook or field. H1124
• Task: traveling till iron shoes are worn out. H1125
• Task: traveling till two skeins of thread are unwound. H1125.1
• Task: carrying off huge quantity of money. H1127
• Task: keeping up a certain work all night. H1128
• Other tedious tasks. H1129
• Task: filling the yard with manure. H1129.1
• Task: bringing twelve cartloads of mud without the use of buffaloes. H1129.1.1
• Task: filling twelve bed-ticks with feathers. Done by helpful birds. H1129.2
• Task: carrying soil to cover stony ground. H1129.3
• Task: filling pot with dew. H1129.4
• Task: building a fire; whole tree burns up while man is bringing another. H1129.5
• Task: gathering firewood; bundle continually swept away from swimming man. H1129.5.1
• Task: building causeway, clearing land, etc. H1129.6
• Task: gathering bed-tick full of harp strings. H1129.7
• Task: gathering vessel full of nail-scrapings. H1129.8
• Task: gathering crow's house full of wren's eggs. H1129.9
• Task: gathering fist-full of fleas. H1129.10
• Impossible task: assembling huge quantity of many-colored fleas. H1129.10.1
• Task: carrying fuel. H1129.11
• Superhuman tasks. H1130
• Task: building enormous bridge. (Cf. H359.1.) H1131
• Task: building bridge over land and sea. H1131.1
• Devil as suitor assigned task to build bridge or dam. H1131.2
• Task: recovering lost objects. H1132
• Task: recovering lost object from sea. H1132.1
• Task: recovering lost ring from sea. H1132.1.1
• Test: recovering ring from water. H1132.1.1.1
• Task: recovering lost key from sea. H1132.1.2
• Task: recovering strap from sea. H1132.1.3
• Task: recovering pen from sea. H1132.1.4
• Task: recovering lost fish-hook. Done by Sea-king. H1132.1.5
• Task: recovering cooking-spit from sea. H1132.1.6