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Motif

Wife too lazy to spin. Supposed dead husband comes back to life and gives his wife a beating, because there was no shirt even in the event of death.

Traits of character. · Unfavorable traits of character. · Unfavorable traits of character – personal. · view the constellation · filed as W111.3.5

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

  • LithuanianBalys Index No. 1370B*
  • RussianAndrejev No. 1370B*.
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Filed under The lazy wife.

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Lazy wife in soiled dress thinks husband is bringing her a new dress from market. He is bringing a gooseCat beaten for not working. Lazy wife must hold cat and is scratchedLazy wife throws bread out of window instead of putting it back into ovenWhy he beats her. Lazy wife beaten by husband maintains that she has done nothing. That is why he is beating her"Who will not work, shall not eat." Idle daughter-in-law learns work
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