μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Lazy man is being taken to poorhouse or out of town or to cemetery to be buried alive. The group take pity on him, offer him various articles to help him get started again. One offers a bushel of corn. The lazy one rises up from the bottom of the wagon or coffin where he has been lying: "Is the corn shelled?"

Traits of character. · Unfavorable traits of character. · Unfavorable traits of character – personal. · view the constellation · filed as W111.5.10.1

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  • general Canada, U.S.: *Baughman.
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Filed under Lazy man asks if wood is split before he accepts it as a gift.

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