Mowing contest with household spirit. Farmer puts harrow teeth in plot spirit is to mow. Spirit mows through them, thinking they are dock weeds

Motif

Mowing contest with household spirit. Farmer puts harrow teeth in plot spirit is to mow. Spirit mows through them, thinking they are dock weeds.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Spirits and demons. · House-spirits. · view the constellation · filed as F488.2

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

general Type 1090 (K42.2). England: Baughman.

Within the index

Filed under The stupid house spirit.

Filed beside it

Household spirit herds sheep, has great trouble coralling the lambs (rabbits). (Cf. J1757.)

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