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- Flea and fever exchange night-lodgings. Flea had attacked abbess and been chased all night; fever, a washerwoman who nearly froze it to death by going to the river and washing clothes. They exchange and succeed. J612.1
- Dog follows washerwoman with bundle hoping for meat. J2066.6.1
- Seducer successfully disguised as washerwoman for fifteen years. Finally exposed. K1321.1.2
- Brahmin in love with washerwoman. T91.7.1
- The house the old man was to build. The woman for whom he is to build the house has some beans for him. The goat eats these up. Cumulative search. Final formula: Smith give me my iron, iron which belongs to the man, man who ate up my fish, fish which belongs to the sea .... sea – shirt – washerwoman – soap – woman – wood – press – grease – herder – cheese – frame – fig – tree – horn – goat – beans. Z44.1