• Why a lad at puberty is energetic and later lazy. A1365
• Creation of monkey: lazy man. A1861.3
• Origin of insects: God throws sand on lazy shepherds. (Cf. A1716.1). A2005
• Why animals lack fire. Sent to steal fire but are lazy and fail. A2436
• Mother wishes lazy daughter may marry devil. Devil appears and marries her. C12.4.1
• Tabu: bearded man being lazy. C565.2
• Witches punish lazy spinning women. G282
• Lazy pupil determines to be more diligent by watching man building home one wattle at a time, and seeing how water fills hole one drop at a time. J67.1
• House dog blames master for teaching him lazy habits. J142.1
• Ass buyer returns ass which has associated with lazy companions. J451.1
• Ant and lazy cricket (grasshopper). Lazy bird is put to shame by thrift of industrious bird. In winter he is in distress. J711.1
• Lazy boy vainly asks God of the Seasons to delay the plowing season. J713.1
• Lazy woman resumes her work. She sees how a little bird by persistence pecks a hole in a stone. J1011
• 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
• Boy pretends to speak only Latin. Father, chastising his lazy son, also speaks in "Latin". J1511.11
• "Eat spiritual food, not material," say monks to lazy brother who criticizes them for working in the garden. J1511.16
• The lazy ass repaid in kind. Loaded with salt, he falls down in the river and lightens his burden. His master then loads him with sponges so that the next time the ass tries the trick he increases his load. J1612
• Husband made to believe that yarn has changed to tow through his carelessness. Thus his lazy wife is relieved from spinning. J2325
• Shoving the child. Numskulls, told to shove the boy along if he is lazy about weeding, do so with their weeding-knives and kill him. J2465.3.1
• Sham miracle: may the food turn raw. Lazy wife takes uncooked food to husband in field. K1975.3

all 60 in the index →

• Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes · Tale 128 128.— THE LAZY SPINNER.
• Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes · Tale 164 164.— LAZY HAEEY.
• Myths of the Cherokee · Miscellaneous Myths and Legends — Myth 114 114. TWO LAZY HUNTERS

• ATU 1142 How the Lazy Horse Was Cured (previously Hot Tin under the Tail of the Ogre's Horse)
• ATU 1370 The Lazy Wife Is Reformed (previously The Lazy Wife)
• ATU 1370B* Wife too Lazy to Spin
• ATU 1370C* Miscellaneous Tales of a Lazy Woman (previously Stopping the Milk Pail)
• ATU 1405 The Lazy Spinning Woman
• ATU 1561 Three Meals in a Row (previously The Lazy Boy Eats Breakfast, Dinner, and Supper One after the Other)
• ATU 1950 The Three Lazy Ones
• ATU 1951 'Is the Wood Split' A lazy man is offered a load of wood as a gift
• ATU 207A* The Lazy Horse (previously Lazy Horse is Always Waiting)
• ATU 280A The Ant and the Cricket (previously The Ant and the Lazy Cricket)