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Motifs
- Earth made by cups of earth placed on spider's web. A823
- Ant thrown from heaven: hence narrow waist. God decides dispute between ant and spider in spider's favor. (Cf. A2355.1.2.) A2214.2
- Spider's body made larger. A2301.2
- Escape from lower world by spider's thread. F101.7
- Extraordinary bed woven with spider's webs. F787.1
- Boar hung in spider's web. F989.18
- Prophecy: girl shall have a hundred lovers, shall marry her servant and die from spider's bite. This happens. M345.1
- Pulling the needle out of the seamstress's hand. Final formula: That was just what the cat was waiting for – it sprang to devour the mouse, the mouse to tear the spider's web, the spider to entangle the dog, the dog to eat the goat, the goat to gnaw the rushes, the rushes to grow in the stream, the stream to quench the fire, the fire to burn the stone, the stone to beat the axe, the axe soon pulled out the needle that was stuck in the seamstress's hand. Z41.8