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Motifs — first 20 of 21
- Origin of metal-working. A1447
- Animal characteristics: punishment for working on holy day. A2231.3
- Magic love-working stone in swallow's head. B722.1
- Tabu: working iron under direct rays of sun. C842.1
- Spirits keep mill from working. F416.1
- Bride test: cloth-working. H383.2
- Always eat bread with "honey". (Working diligently, your bread will be as sweet as honey.) H588.11
- Make-believe eating, make-believe work. At table the peasant says, "We will only act as if we were eating." At work the servant replies, "We will only act as if we were working." J1511.1
- "Eat spiritual food, not material," say monks to lazy brother who criticizes them for working in the garden. J1511.16
- Fattening the pig. A farmer who wanted to fatten a pig fed it only twice a day. When told to feed it three times a day he says, "A working man must have more to eat than a pig." J1903.3
- Fool asks owner of oxen why he does not milk them since he is not working them. J1905.4
- Fox drops goldsmith's child to get him away from gold bench he is working on and thus steal gold. K341.25
- Theft by posing as magician. Trickster claims to be working magic spell over food and eats it. K353
- Ass jealous of horse, but sees horse later working in a mill. L452.1
- Wager: fortune made from capital or from working at vocation. Test: money given to workman is stolen or lost; lead for his work given him is lent to fisherman who rewards him with a fish in which is a diamond. N66
- Miraculous adhesion of objects to human hand as punishment for working on holy day. (Cf. Q223.6.) Q551.2.2
- Peasants punished for working on feast day. They cannot leave the field for several days. (Cf. Q223.) Q559.4
- Fool given intelligent wife; lame man hardworking wife. T125.1
- Miraculous working of the host. V34
- Cat beaten for not working. Lazy wife must hold cat and is scratched. W111.3.2