Boy dirties his shoe and asks the hay stack to wipe it clean — Mythoi

Motif

Boy dirties his shoe and asks the hay stack to wipe it clean.

Miscellaneous groups of motifs. · Formulas. · Cumulative tales. · Chains with interdependent members. · view the constellation · filed as Z41.7.1

Filed across the traditions

Cheremis Sebeok-Nyerges.

Within the index

Filed under The wormwood does not want to rock the sparrow. Final formula: the worms begin to gnaw the rods, the rods to beat the oxen, the oxen to drink the water, the water to quench the fire, the fire to burn the hunters, the hunters to shoot the wolves, the wolves to kill the goats, the goats to gnaw the wormwood, the wormwood to rock me – it rocked and rocked me to sleep.

Carried in tale types

The Old Woman and her Pig · ATU 2030 1 recorded variant

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