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- Invisibility of creator learned from the impossibility of staring at the sun, his servant. A11.1
- Attendants and servants of the gods. A165
- Creator's giant servant puts a valley where earth's crust is heavy and a mountain where it is light so as to stabilize it. A857.2
- Creator's giant servant puts trees to hold earth together where it slipped. A857.3
- Creator gives liquor to his servant giant to drink. A1427.0.4
- Animal as servant of saint. (Cf. B292.) B256
- Animal as servant to man. B292
- Animal as domestic servant. B292.2
- Monkey as domestic servant. B292.2.1
- Bird as domestic servant. B292.2.2
- Bird servant to deity. B292.2.2.1
- Lion as domestic servant. B292.2.3
- Black cat as servant of giant. B292.6
- Rat servants cut jungle down, till soil for master. B292.9.3
- Animals as domestic servants. B574
- Dragon fly serves as snake's servant, feeds snake; it is called snake-feeder. B765.24
- Magic object stolen back by servant. D882.3
- Man has magic servants who plow for him; he swallows them each day and keeps them secret. D1719.8
- Magician who has sold his soul to the devil hires his servant to bury him properly: the coffin bursts. (Cf. E261.2.1.) E411.9
- Fairy punishes servant girl who fails to leave food for him. F361.14
Episodes
- Gods and Fighting Men: The Story of the Tuatha de Danaan and of the Fianna of Ireland · Ch. 66 CHAPTER IV. THE HARD SERVANT
- Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes · Tale 134 134.— THE SIX SERVANTS.
- Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes · Tale 140 140.— DOMESTIC SERVANTS.
- Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes · Tale 162 162.— THE WISE SERVANT.
Tale types
- ATU 1389* The Stingy Farmwife Gives her Servant Some Little and Some Big Lumps of Sugar
- ATU 1560** 'Is it Still Raining' (previously The Peasant and his Servant Driven by Rain into the Hay Barn)
- ATU 1562J* 'Sing It!' A pharmacist's (farmer's) servant who stutters tries to tell his master that the laboratory is burning (that he fell into a canal along with his horse and wagon)
- ATU 1567 Stingy Household (previously Hungry Servant Reproaches Stingy Master)
- ATU 1569** Clothing the Servant
- ATU 1571* The Servants Punish their Master
- ATU 1571** The Boastful Servant
- ATU 1573* The Clever Servant as Trouble Maker
- ATU 1688 The Servant to Improve on the Master's Statements
- ATU 1833A 'What Does David Say' A clergyman sends his servant to buy something from the butcher David (Paul, Moses)