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- Tabu: making unreasonable requests. Given power of fulfilling all wishes, person oversteps moderation and is punished. C773.1
- Water gradually envelops girl filling pitcher and drowns her. Work of malevolent rice-spirit. D1432.1
- Hero sets wife to task of filling water-bottle with spout turned downward. H1023.2.2
- Impossible task: filling a grain-bin through the hole in the bottom. H1023.2.3
- Task: filling a bottomless water tube. H1023.2.4
- Task: filling pots having subterranean outlets. H1023.2.5
- Task: filling a sack full of lies (truths). H1045
- Task: filling glasses with water that has neither fallen from heaven nor sprung from the earth. (Uses horse's sweat.) H1073
- Task: filling the yard with manure. H1129.1
- Task: filling twelve bed-ticks with feathers. Done by helpful birds. H1129.2
- Task: filling pot with dew. H1129.4
- Filling cracks with butter. Numskull sees cracks in the ground and feels so sorry for them that he greases them with the butter he is taking home. J1871
- Filling the pen. Told to fill locked pen trickster chops up wagon and mules and throws them in. K1427
- Fulfilling of bargain or promise. M202
- Punishment: filling leaky vessels with water from a bottomless jar. (Cf. H1023.2.) Q512.1
- Man saves sausage skins, sends them back for refilling. W152.14.2
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