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Motifs
- Magic object received by apprentice from master. D829.1
- Magician's apprentice. D1711.0.1
- Devil promises help to mistreated apprentice if youth will meet him by night in lonely spot. G303.22.12
- Sacrament too precious to be bought. If that were so, says the apprentice, no one would have given it to you or me. J1261.2.4
- Hungry apprentice attracts master's attention by telling lies on him. J1341.5
- The sound of the harp. An apprentice harpmaker is blamed that he has not made the harp sound. He throws the harp at his master's head and breaks it to pieces: "There you have your sound." J1626
- An expensive joke. A shoemaker's apprentice greases boots as he would grease a fowl. The owner in anger returns and breaks a window. J1631
- Fool's errand. An apprentice, or newcomer or ignorant person, etc., is sent for absurd or misleading or nonexistent object or on a ridiculous quest. J2346