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* The third classic example is from a Swedish saga, in which the full list of conditions is that the heroine cannot visit the king by foot, by horse, in a wagon, nor in a boat. She could not visit him either dressed or undressed. It could not be day or night, a month or a year, and the moon couldn't be waxing or waning. As described above, she wore a fishing-net, balanced one foot on a sledge and the other on a goat, and went at dusk. She also went on the third day of Yule, which was considered to lie outside the normal count of the year.
* [[Celtic Mythology|Prince Conn-Eda]] loses a chess game with his evil stepmother, and her geas (her binding condition on Conn-Eda that is her right after she's won) is that he go to the land of the [[The Fair Folk|fairies]] and take the [[Cool Horse|black steed]] and [[Hell Hound|supernatural dog]] of the king of the fairies, and return to her with them within a year and a day.
* In some versions of [[The Brothers Grimm (creator)| "The Golden Goose"]], a King offers Simpleton - the protagonist - his daughter's hand in marriage if he can complete three Impossible Tasks: find someone who can eat a mountain of bread, find someone who can drink all the wine in the kingdom, and build a boat that can sail on land ''and'' water. Fortunately Simpleton has befriended a [[The Fair Folk| "little grey man"]] who is able to complete all three tasks with ease.
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