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- Giant comes to bake too soon; spills dough. Giant who has common oven with another thinks he hears companion in next valley scraping the kneading trough. He bakes his dough but finds he is too early and that he has only heard himself scratching. He spills the dough: hence fruitful soil. (Cf. F451.7.2, F455.3.5.) F531.3.7
- Bride test: thrifty scraping of bread tray. H381.2.2
- Test: guessing nature of certain plant. Plant came from scrapings of princesses' bodies. H522.2
- Task: gathering vessel full of nail-scrapings. H1129.8