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- Two loaves of bread – one to excite, the other to appease hunger. (Cf. D1031.1.) D1373.2
- Loaves and fishes, eaten at night, restored next morning through power of saint. D1652.1.10.1
- King called baker's son: he has given the poet only loaves of bread. King sees jest and rewards poet. J816.2
- Maid rebukes pilgrim for eating too much. "If both of us had been present at the miracle of the loaves and fishes you would have eaten me too!" Pilgrim: "I wouldn't have eaten you but I would have chewed on you a bit!" J1346
- Deceptive bargain: as much bread as he wants to eat. The baker fixes his price at the rate for twenty loaves. The trickster eats thirty. K173
- Bread dropped in mud; messenger returns for more. A youth poses as a rich man's servant and gets a sack of bread from a baker. The baker boy is to go along and collect. The rascal drops two loaves in the mud and sends the boy back for fresh ones. Meantime he runs off with the rest of the bread. K343.1.1
- Mother's parting gift to adventuring son: the two loaves of bread. One for hunger, one for overeating. N782
- The large loaves need a large oven. Parson says that the loaves with which Jesus fed the people in the wilderness were as large as the mountains. The mason asks what kind of oven they were baked in. X434.1
- Lies about loaves of bread. X1811
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