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Motifs — first 20 of 21
- Origin of stones: punishment for discourtesy. Jesus asks a man what he is sowing. He answers, "Stones." Jesus turns the crop to stones. This is how stones originate. A973
- Establishment of times for sowing and reaping. A1150.1
- Origin of sowing and planting. A1441.4
- Origin of periodic sowing. A1441.4.1
- Custom of sacrifice begun at harvest and sowing times. A1545.4
- Rabbit (frog) eats seed-grain from fields: nose closed during sowing season. (Cf. A2335.2.4.) A2238.1
- Why hare's nose is closed during sowing season. (Cf. A2238.1.) A2335.2.4
- Man tells Jesus he is sowing stones. "You shall get stones." Why peas do not soften in boiling. A2721.3.1
- Disenchantment by burying victim and sowing grain over him. D719.1
- Sowing and reaping same day. F971.7
- Riddle: what six things are not worth doing? (Sowing salt, mowing pebbles, drinking from an empty jug, making signs to a blind man, wooing at mealtime, playing a harp in a mill.) H871
- Task: hatching boiled eggs; countertask: sowing cooked seeds and harvesting the crop. (Cf. H951, H952.) H1023.1.1
- Task: hatching eggs immediately; countertask: sowing seeds and bringing in crop next morning. (Cf. H951, H952.) H1023.1.2
- Task: sowing rye and bringing crop next morning. (Cf. H1023.1.2.) H1023.17
- Task: sowing dragon's teeth. H1024.5
- Task: preparing and sowing impossible amount of land overnight. H1103.2.1
- Sowing cheese to bring forth a cow. J1932.2
- Sowing salt to produce salt. J1932.3
- Sowing needles (like seed). J1932.5
- Sowing grain: does so in unplowed field. K1428