Motif
Artificial animal made to imitate desired livestock
artificial_animal_made_to_imitate_desired_livestock
A motif of the Sacred Craft and Divinely Aided Construction family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
germanic
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Household Tales by Brothers Grimm SECOND STORY / FIRST STORY / SECOND STORY / THIRD STORY; lines 9690-9781 confidence: high
A new tale begins: the poor Little Peasant and his wife want a cow, and a carpenter makes a painted wooden calf with its head down as if eating.
The Little Peasant plans for a carpenter to make and paint a wooden calf so that it looks like a real calf and appears to be eating.
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