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/lit/, I need help finding a russian fable I read once who's name I can't remember, or if it was even actually russian. I figured you guys could help.

I don't remember the name of the main character or the fable itself, but the story, if I remember correctly, was about a man who wanted to be great, on a legendary level. So he went to a fortune teller who gave him three impossible things to do, which he did all of in one day. So he succeeded in becoming a legend, but none of his friends and soldiers could see him anymore. Because he wasn't human, just a legend, for what he did.

Does that sound familiar? I'm really desperate to find it again. I don't really have anything to offer in exchange other than some of my personal favorite paintings.

>> No.4124602

I don't know this fable but holy shit this sounds like a good story

>> No.4124606
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4124606

>>4124602

DUDE I KNOW RIGHT?

>> No.4124644

Sounds like its either its an amazing fable, or a shitty 2 frame gif from tumblr.

Sounds cool though.

>> No.4124696

>>4124644

Tumblr is actually where I read it first. It was a comic adaption of the fable, done by either a professional illustrator or someone who was aspiring to be one, but it wasn't the kind of hokey amateur stuff you see floating around. I don't know how /lit/ feels about tumblr or comic adaptions, but I remember in the description of the comic the author mentioned it was based on some classic folklore from some culture I can't perfectly remember. But the main character was definitely portrayed as russian/eastern european of some sort. I want to find the fable because the author was only showing a few sample pages from the full story, and I never saw how it ended/completely forgot to look it up to find the end. It's killing me now.

>> No.4124964

bump

>> No.4125857

another bump

>> No.4127188

bump for interest

>> No.4127228

>>4124696
It's possible that the story was made up by the illustrator guy, and the 'based on classic folklore' bit is just misdirection to give it credibility.

>> No.4127290

>>4127228

Yeah, you might be right. Even so, I'd still love to just find it again. I talked to a friend of mine who, as it turned out, had read the same thing, but he tried finding the same comic again and came up fruitless. I even ended up looking up "Impossible Task" on TV Tropes to see what examples they came up with, and they didn't have it. Though I might be looking in the wrong places.