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Motifs
- Origin of decrying female sinners. A1556.3.1
- Magic (marvelous object) given back to placate crying child. D883
- Crying induced by magic as trick to force child's mother. D2034
- Laughing and crying at the same time (sundry reasons given). F1041.11
- Task: coming laughing and crying at once. (Rubs eyes with a twig to simulate crying.) H1064
- The abbot burns his mouth. Says that he is crying because so many have left the monastery. J1478.1
- Surrender to the rake. Fool steps on a rake and falls down crying, "I surrender!" J2613
- Escape by laughing and crying at same time. Captured bird cries in thinking of her little ones and laughs under pretext that the hunter is wasting his time instead of taking the treasure which she pretends is in her house. The hunter leaves her. K608
- To give child a slap to stop its crying, numskull kills it. N333.1.1
- Descendants of man who endured pain without crying out not to meet violent deaths. (Cf. Q84.) Q154.1
- The crying child. He stops crying so that after a rest he can cry louder than ever. W182