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Motifs
- New creation shouted away. It is unstable and therefore unsatisfactory. A636
- Frog works in fields for benefactor. B292.9.1
- Cock and hen build pyre for benefactor. B599.1
- Animals try in vain to repair sleigh. They get unsatisfactory materials. B831
- Reincarnated benefactor helped by man he has befriended in former life. E601.2
- Grateful ogre resuscitates his benefactor. G513.1
- Unsatisfactory life preferred to death. J217.0.1
- They gave it away themselves. A wandering actor rewarded by a city with a coat of their color gambles it away. When upbraided about giving away their present he replies that they hadn't wanted to keep it themselves. J1444
- Actor forgets and speaks in his own person. J2041
- Did not want to be Christ. An actor representing Christ in a Passion Play is beaten by Jews. He throws the cross down: "The devil may be God; I won't." J2495.3
- Contest in seeing sunrise first: sun on the trees. The fox places himself on a hill facing the east; the hog in a lower place facing the high trees to the west. The sun shines on the top of the trees, and the hog wins. (Sometimes told with human actors.) K52.1
- Trickster shifts married couples in bed. Old man married to young woman and young man married to old woman. The shift is satisfactory to the young couple. K1318
- Blood of contractors mixed to seal bargain. M201.1.1
- Actor. P471
- Actors banished along with vagabonds. P471.1
- Benefactor falsely accused of theft by ungrateful youth. W154.13
- Chains involving a single scene or event without interdependence among the individual actors. Z30
- Chains involving a death: animal actors. Z32