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Motifs
- Animal searches for dead man. B546
- Ghost searches for breath. E599.1
- The fish in the sleeve. A particularly obnoxious man delays others while he haggles over prices with a butcher. Meanwhile a parson takes the three fish the man has laid down and puts them into his large sleeves. The man is angry and searches in vain for them. The parson then shows them and advises him not to let people cheat him. J1604
- Absurd searches for the lost. J1920
- Man searches for axe which he carries on his shoulder. J2025.1
- The hunter's mass. A count instructs his chaplain to read a hunter's mass (i.e., a short one). The chaplain searches the prayerbook in vain for a hunter's mass. J2474
- Faithless wife deceives husband while she searches for lover. K2213.3.3
- Bird carries off ring which lover has taken from sleeping mistress's finger. He searches for the ring and becomes separated from her. N352
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