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- Contours of land caused by plowing of goddess. (Cf. A901.) A951
- Origin of plowing. A1441.1
- Tabu: plowing in certain place. C522
- Tabu: plowing with ass and ox together. C886
- Rain produced by plowing. D2143.1.5
- Giant's toy. A young giantess picks up a man plowing. Wants him as a toy. Her mother says, "Take him back. He will drive us away." (Cf. F531.5.1.) F531.5.3
- Extraordinary plowing. F1099.6
- Extraordinary plowing by teeth. F1099.6.1
- Task: plowing enormous amount of land in one day. H1103.2
- Task: plowing field of vipers. (Puts on iron boots.) H1188
- Test of worthiness for bishop: plowing without plowshare. H1573.2.3
- Boy saves life by showing father foolishness of plowing up his crop. Father has been persuaded to kill child. J92
- Lazy boy vainly asks God of the Seasons to delay the plowing season. J713.1
- Plowing above the tree. Told to plow above a certain tree (on the hillside), numskulls haul oxen and plow into tree and destroy them. J2465.12
- "Plowing out potatoes." Fool plows them out of ground. J2465.13
- Plowing contest. K41
- Plowing contest won by deception: hare exchanged for horse. God and the devil contest in plowing. The devil plows with a horse, God with a hare. While the devil is asleep, God takes the devil's horse and plows the field. When he wakes, the devil thinks the hare has plowed so much and gladly trades his horse for the hare. K41.1
- Plowing the field: horse and harness destroyed. The youth is told to come home from plowing when the dog does. He beats the dog so that it runs home; then he destroys the horse and harness and goes home. K1411
- Young man plowing corn sees letters "P. C." formed by clouds. He explains situation to minister, asks to be ordained. The minister explains that the letters mean "plow corn" instead of "preach Christ". X459.1.1