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- Task: shearing flock of sheep in one day. H1106
- Deceptive division of animals for shearing. The trickster shears the sheep; the dupe the pig. K171.5
- The obstinate wife: cutting with knife or scissors. At the end of the argument the man throws his wife into the water. As she sinks she makes with her finger the motion of shearing with the scissors. T255.1