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Motifs
- Transformation: man to millstone. D231.1
- Magic millstone. D1262.1
- Self-grinding millstone. (Cf. D1262.) D1601.20
- Dwarfs suspend large millstone on thin thread over head of mortal, to show what anguish dwarfs felt when mortal endangered their lives. F451.5.4.2
- Dwarfs kill giantess by dropping millstone on her head. F451.10.2.1
- Strong hero attacked with millstone puts it on as collar. Sent to dig a well. Master throws the millstone on him. F615.3.1
- Strong hero asks that chickens stop scratching. When his master throws millstone on him he complains that chickens are scratching dirt on him. F615.3.1.1
- Strong man lifts millstone. F624.2.1
- What are best and worst stones? Best: altar, whetstone, millstone; worst: hailstone, stone in the eye, gallstone. H659.3.1
- Millstone preferred to jewels. Man shown jewels that cost much money; he replies that he has better stones (millstones) that earn that much. J245.1
- Numskull sticks his head into the hole of a millstone. It rolls into the lake. J2131.5.4
- Carrying load up hill to roll it down. Fools carry log (millstone) down hill. They realize that they might have rolled it down. They therefore carry it back up hill to roll it down. J2165
- Numskull told to steal something heavy brings millstone. J2461.1.7
- "What do I hold in my hand?" (Ring). "In its first state it was in the mountains; it is round and flat." Fool: "A millstone." J2712
- Bluff: millstones said to be pearls of hero's mother. Ogre overawed. K1718.2
- Treasure guarded by magic millstone. N581.1
- Punishment: millstone dropped on guilty person. Q412
- Punishment: millstone hung around neck. Woman has had desire to kill frog. (Cf. Q211.8.) Q469.4