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Motifs
- Origin of laziness. A1377
- Creation of fly: punishment for laziness. (Cf. A1730.) A2031.1
- Creation of flea: punishment for laziness. (Cf. A1730.) A2032.1
- Animal characteristics: punishment for laziness. A2233
- Bride test: key in flax reveals laziness. Suitor hides key in flax on spinning wheel. Finds it there next day. H382.1
- Listening to the debate. A lazy youth explains his late rising by saying that he lay abed to hear the argument between industry and laziness. J1486
- Fits become epidemic. After dinner a servant feigns a fit and goes to sleep. The master thereupon feigns a fit and beats the boy, who is thus cured of his laziness. J1511.4
- Jealous monk falsely accuses novice of laziness. K2129.1
- Laziness punished; industry rewarded. Q5
- Laziness punished. (Cf. Q495.1.) Q321
- Banishment for laziness. (Cf. Q321.) Q431.19
- Laziness. W111
- Contest in laziness. Each cites instances of his laziness. W111.1
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